Hello Bill, Is your pam set correctly? did u use the RH auth setup? If so u might wanna use pam-ldap then pam_unix first_pass HTH, Jesse
Bill Dossett said: > Hi, > > Can anyone please tell me why the following is occurring? > > I have one openLDAP server running under RH8.0... I then > have a number of other servers that authenticate via the > main openLDAP server... these range from RH7.2 to RH8.0. > > The pertinent portion of my nsswitch.conf is thus: > > passwd: files nisplus ldap > shadow: files nisplus ldap > group: files nisplus ldap > > the root account is set on each machine using passwd,shadow,group, it is > not set in openLDAP. > > The problem I have is that if the openLDAP server is down, it takes > ages... like 5 minutes, to login as root or to do anything which checks > authentication... to me it should be checking files for this first > before ldap... but that certainly does not seem how it is... I will > have a replica openLDAP server soon, but I would like to understand this > fully... does anyone know how to fix that.. .or know anywhere where > there are people that know how to fix this? > > Thanks > > Bill Dossett > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ----------------------------------------- Jesse Jacobs, R.H.C.T. Ajax, ON Canada -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
