ldap authentication fallback to system authentication problem

[Ryan Golhar]

Intersting, I'm seeing the same thing here.  The only difference though
is when I try to log in on a machine as root, after I type the password
it clears the screen and throws back the login prompt.  



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Ryan Golhar
Computational Biologist
The Informatics Institute at
The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ

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-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Robin M.
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 11:21 PM
To: redhat-list at redhat.com
Subject: ldap authentication fallback to system authentication problem


Hi I have used the setup tool provded with redhat to use ldap for system
authentication. I can see that it correctly modified my /etc/pam* files
and authentication over ssh works against the ldap database. I have
allowed root to ssh in and that account does not exist in my ldap
database but I guess it falls back to /etc/passwd as specified in
/etc/nsswitch.conf

My problem is that when I shut ldap down the authentication fails
entirely, instead of just reading the /etc/passwd file.

Does anyone know what config options I must set in order to allow the
system to read the /etc/passwd file if ldap is down ?



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