> If you're going to start mixing local and LDAP stuff that way, you're > going to run into some fun-to-debug strangeness if you're not careful > about them all being identical. Thanks again for your help, I have this working now. I had a comma in my AllowGroups line instead of a space. We're slowly extricating ourselves from the local authentication, but this is quite a non-standard environment. Once we have ldap running rock-solid smooth we're planning to go back through and remove all local users from /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.