On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:56:31PM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > >The LDAP system collapsed (or, more consicely, it somehow beginned to > >take 5 minutes to get a GNOME login (where 5-10 sec is normal...). So, i > >logged in as root, ran system-config-authentification, turned on user > >info cacheing, logged back out, and things worked. > what's wrong with logging as any unprivileged user, to open a xterm, > to run "su -" and then system-config-authentification ? With LDAP down, unpriviledged users couldn't authenticate. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
