Josh Rivel wrote:
> I would like to have a local admin type account on ~700 Open Solaris snv_81 
> boxes that can only be used when LDAP is *not* working.
>
> When the network is up and running we would like all access to be only for 
> LDAP users, but if LDAP is down, there is a "backdoor" in via the router that 
> the OpenSolaris boxes are plugged into - they are all connected back to a 
> central location via an OpenVPN tunnel, so if the tunnel is up we can ssh in 
> as an LDAP user no problem.  If LDAP is down, then we need local access to 
> the box, but my boss doesn't want the localadmin account to be used if LDAP 
> is working. 
>
> I thought about using the following in /etc/nsswitch.conf, but I'm not sure 
> if it would break other things:
>
> passwd: ldap [NOTFOUND=return] files
>
> Currently it's set to
>
> passwd: files ldap
>
> Would that work? Or is there a better way to do this?
>   
It should work, knock up a quick zone and give it a try.

-- 
Ian.

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