I have been having a problem with Red Hat 7.2 configured for LDAP authentication.
The authentication works. However, if the LDAP server is down, I cant even log in as root. root and other users are listed in the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files, however these do not seem to be read if LDAP is down (even though the LDAP server does not even contain root or these other users). Here is (part of) my nsswitch.conf file: # The following is required to make the system # check the local passwd files for netgroups then # the LDAP server... # passwd: files ldap passwd_compat: ldap shadow: files ldap group: files ldap and the pam stuff is: #%PAM-1.0 # This file is auto-generated. # User changes will be destroyed the next time authconfig is run. auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so likeauth nullok md5 shadow auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_ldap.so use_first_pass auth required /lib/security/pam_deny.so account sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so account sufficient /lib/security/pam_ldap.so account required /lib/security/pam_deny.so password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3 password sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so nullok use_authtok md5 shadow password sufficient /lib/security/pam_ldap.so use_authtok password required /lib/security/pam_deny.so session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so session required /lib/security/pam_unix.so session optional /lib/security/pam_ldap.so Anyone had any experience that can help. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
