I am attempting to setup LDAP authentication for non-system users. Everything appears to work just find using auth-config to setup a RH9 system. root ( a local account ) can login just fine, as can ldap defined users when the box can bind to the ldap server. The problem occurs when ldap becomes unavailable. I lose the ability to log in at all. Of course the ldap defined accounts won't be able to log in, but root should be able to. Instead the system appears to hang for about one minute and then it returns me to the login prompt. There is nothing in the system logs either. Any ideas will be appreciated. ------- /etc/pam.d/system-auth ------- auth required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_env.so auth sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so likeauth nullok auth sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_ldap.so use_first_pass auth required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so account required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so account [default=die success=done user_unknown=ignore service_err=ignore system_err=ignore authinfo_unavail=ignore] /lib/security/$ISA/pam_ldap.so password required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_cracklib.so retry=3 type= password sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so nullok use_authtok md5 shadow password sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_ldap.so use_authtok password required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_limits.so session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so session optional /lib/security/$ISA/pam_ldap.so -------- /etc/nsswitch.conf ------- <snip> passwd: files ldap shadow: files ldap group: files ldap </snip> Thank you, Kevin -- Kevin Reck Information Systems University of Wisconsin - Extension kevin.reck@xxxxxxxx (608) 262-2057 _______________________________________________ Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list