> The best you can do here is set 'bind policy soft' ldap conf. Also > enable your chkconfig nscd on. If you are going to do ldap auth make > sure you have an LDAP cluster/farm and a load balancer or some high > availability systems. Things go pretty bad when your LDAP server is > down. Yes, we actually just tested this with it set to "soft" and it solved the problem. We do plan to load balance to multiple servers when this goes to production. I just wanted to make sure that local accounts could still log in while we transition over, even if LDAP is down.