When openldap fails to start, can not login as root

[joshkel at gmail.com (Josh Kelley)]

On 2/23/06, Oliver Schulze L. <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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/ ?

Which version of CentOS?  CentOS 4 adds "pam_succeed_if.so uid < 100
quiet" in /etc/pam.d/system-auth to hopefully fix this kind of
problem, but CentOS 3 doesn't have anything like that.

Josh Kelley