Pam password authentication

[Indexer <indexer@internode.on.net>]

Recently, i have hit a rather unique, and annoying, error with ldap. it seems that using pam with ldap, allows *any* password as valid. Im not really sure what i have done here, and any help would be apprecitaed. find my /etc/ldap.conf attached, as well as pam.d/ssh

etc/ldap.conf

base dc=chocolate,dc=lan
suffix dc=chocolate,dc=lan
uri ldap://ldap.chocolate.lan
ldap_version 3
scope sub
timelimit 3
bind_timelimit 3
bind_policy soft
pam_filter objectclass=posixAccount
pam_login_attribute uid
pam_groupdn cn=login,ou=Nemo,ou=Group,dc=chocolate,dc=lan
pam_member_attribute memberUid
pam_password clear
pam_password exop
nss_base_passwd         ou=Users,dc=chocolate,dc=lan?sub
nss_base_shadow         ou=Users,dc=chocolate,dc=lan?sub
nss_base_group          ou=Nemo,ou=Group,dc=chocolate,dc=lan?sub
ssl on
ssl start_tls
tls_cacert /usr/local/etc/openldap/keys/cacert.crt

tls_checkpeer no


pam.d/sshd

auth            sufficient      pam_opie.so             no_warn no_fake_prompts
auth            requisite       pam_opieaccess.so       no_warn allow_local
auth           sufficient      /usr/local/lib/pam_ldap.so no_warn use_first_pass
auth            sufficient      pam_unix.so             no_warn try_first_pass

account         required        pam_nologin.so
account         required        pam_login_access.so
account         optional        pam_unix.so
account         optional        /usr/local/lib/pam_ldap.so

session         required        pam_permit.so
session         optional      /usr/local/lib/pam_ldap.so

password        sufficient      /usr/local/lib/pam_ldap.so      no_warn    use_athtok   use_first_pass
password        sufficient      pam_unix.so             no_warn try_first_pass