-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 try authconfig it lets you change how you authenticate on your systems. ldap, nis, smb, etc Dennis Once upon a time at band camp Sat, 14 Jun 2003 08:14 am, Doug Wyatt wrote: > Thanks, > > I'd already tried removing 'ldap' from every active line > in nsswitch.conf, commented-out the active lines in the > ldap.conf file and changed the rc5.d entry S95saslauthd > to K95saslauthd. In other words, I'd thrashed about a > little bit w/o success. > > Logging on single-user worked, though I hadn't thought > about trying that until today. > > And 'authconfig --disableldapauth --disableldap --enableshadow' > surprised me by bringing up a DOS-style GUI. The result of > using authconfig was just what I needed. I can login multi- > user under RH9, now. > > Again, thanks to you and Justin for your responses. > > IDH, > Doug > > Gordon Pritchard wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 01:05, Doug Wyatt wrote: > >>enabling LDAP and SASL and somehow changing login > >> authentication to use these. > >> > >> > >>Can someone take pity on a poor idiot and tell me what files > >>on the RH9 partition I can modify to revert to simple shadow > >>password file authentication for logins? > >> > >>I can boot RH8 under another partition and mount the RH9 > >>partition for access. > > > > Did anyone reply? Well, here's my Friday the 13th $0.02 to try to help > > you: > > > > Edit (as root) your file /etc/nsswitch.conf. You will probably have: > > > > passwd: files ldap > > shadow: files ldap > > group: files ldap > > > > Remove the 'ldap' references from everywhere, and you should be fine! > > > > (as an alternative, you could use the 'authconfig' tool, and uncheck > > the "Use LDAP" box. I haven't tried this, but I have used authconfig to > > _enable_ LDAP). > > > > HTH, > > -Gord > > -- > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Doug Wyatt <dwyatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sys Admin - Kohlman Systems Research, Inc. > 319 Perry St., Lawrence, KS 66044 USA > Phone: 785-843-4099 Fax: 785-843-6459 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+6mpqpsZxg5TSdKURAkI0AJ985F68AgKMIJfnTRxlgmcRhYFm4QCeNKKt DZCi/aApHN+WRh9VRyV7q0Y= =PRPH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
