First I want to thanks you for your response but unfortunatelly it does not work :-( I've restarted the nscd service. Stopped the ldap daemon. and trying to log as root but the "access denied" message still apears. Strangly enough, the /var/log/message does not have any entries logging my bad attempt. I'm becoming completly mad ----- Original Message ----- From: "Igor Schein" <igor@txc.com> To: <pam-list@redhat.com> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 4:39 AM Subject: Re: ldap authentication > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:11:45AM +0930, Richard Eames wrote: > > We had the same problem and resolved it by putting [NOTFOUND=continue] in our nsswitch.conf > > > > ie > > > > passwd: files [NOTFOUND=continue] ldap > > shadow: files [NOTFOUND=continue] ldap > > group: files [NOTFOUND=continue] ldap > > > Here is my problem, I had configured the linux system to have user account into a ldap directory (openldap). I've used authconfig to do so. It is working fine, no problems. > > > > But if the openldap daemon stop, nobody can login anymore, even root! > > But that doesn't explain why root is unable to login. > > Igor > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pam-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list > > _______________________________________________ Pam-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
