Intersting, I'm seeing the same thing here. The only difference though is when I try to log in on a machine as root, after I type the password it clears the screen and throws back the login prompt. ----- Ryan Golhar Computational Biologist The Informatics Institute at The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ Phone: 973-972-5034 Fax: 973-972-7412 Email: golharam@xxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robin M. Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 11:21 PM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: ldap authentication fallback to system authentication problem Hi I have used the setup tool provded with redhat to use ldap for system authentication. I can see that it correctly modified my /etc/pam* files and authentication over ssh works against the ldap database. I have allowed root to ssh in and that account does not exist in my ldap database but I guess it falls back to /etc/passwd as specified in /etc/nsswitch.conf My problem is that when I shut ldap down the authentication fails entirely, instead of just reading the /etc/passwd file. Does anyone know what config options I must set in order to allow the system to read the /etc/passwd file if ldap is down ? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
