When openldap fails to start, can not login as root

[barry.brimer at bigfoot.com (Barry Brimer)]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Oliver Schulze L. wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a problem that when my slapd fails to start, I can no longer
> login via ssh as a user that is in /etc/passwd
>
> How can I solve this? Editing /etc/nsswitch.conf o pam.d/ ?

The easiest thing to do is to use authconfig to change your authentication 
parameters.  PAM and nsswitch will be updated accordingly.

Barry