Re: root can't login when ldap service fails

[pll+ldap@lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 09:24:15 CDT
John Beamon said:

>I'm working on Red Hat Linux 7.3, OpenLDAP 2.0.27.  pam_ldap was set up 
>with RH's authconfig tool.  When the ldap service doesn't start or is 
>unreachable for some reason, root is not allowed to login.  I set 
>pam_min_uid to 500 in /etc/ldap.conf.  I'm not finding anything else to 
>check, so I would appreciate some help.  We're not putting root into 
>LDAP, obviously.  What am I missing?

First, don't use GUIs to configure things like this, they hide too 
much of what's going on, and prevent you from learning how the system 
really works.

Next, check the contents of /etc/nsswitch.conf.  You probably have a 
line like:

	passwd: ldap

when you likely need:

	passwd: files ldap

Read the man page for nsswitch.conf to figure out how this stuff 
works, it's pretty simple.

HTH,
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