On 04/02/2010, at 7:29 AM, Sean Carolan wrote: > If I stop the LDAP server though, I'm unable to log onto this server > with my ssh key or password. Is there a way to keep shadow passwords > as a failover method for logging in if the LDAP server is down? What is listed in your /etc/nsswitch.conf for passwd, shadow and group? If you do not have an entry for 'files' then the local /etc/{passwd,shadow,group} files will not be searched. Hope this helps. Tom -- 389 users mailing list 389-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users