On 04/02/2010, at 7:29 AM, Sean Carolan wrote:
> If I stop the LDAP server though, I'm unable to log onto this server
> with my ssh key or password. Is there a way to keep shadow passwords
> as a failover method for logging in if the LDAP server is down?
What is listed in your /etc/nsswitch.conf for passwd, shadow and group?
If you do not have an entry for 'files' then the local /etc/{passwd,shadow,group} files will not be searched.
Hope this helps.
Tom
