When openldap fails to start, can not login as root

[craigwhite at azapple.com (Craig White)]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 22:53 -0600, Barry Brimer wrote:
> 
> 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.
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not if you can't login...

what does 'grep passwd /etc/nsswitch.conf' look like?

Craig