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Sent: Sat 1/3/2004 12:33 AM
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Subject: RE: Possibly Hacked - Resolved
> Nsswitch isn't the only factor here. PAM would be doing your
> authentication.
>
> If you don't have a LDAP server available then disable it for
> authentication.
> There was a bug in RH <= 8 where if you have configured PAM to use LDAP
> and the LDAP server goes unavailable that local logins will break also.
> A fix was to change a line in /etc/pam.d/system-auth, but if you aren't
> using LDAP at all then you should disable it entirely via authconfig.
>
> -Steve
>
Thanks Steve.. per your recommendation I disabled LDAP using authconfig
and retried my local logins and everything seems to be working normally
now..
-Simran
This has come up a couple of times on the openldap mailing list. I saw
the problem with RedHat 8, but it looks like it's fixed in 9 and Fedora.
I couldn't find a link to the message on the openldap list detailing the
workaround, but there is some information here:
http://www.xenos.net/library/ldapauth.html
Just drill down through it and look for the change that you would need to
make to /etc/pam.d/system-auth.
-Steve
