[389-users] With LDAP server stopped, local authentication fails...

[Tom Lanyon]

On 04/02/2010, at 7:29 AM, Sean Carolan wrote:
> If I stop the LDAP server though, I'm unable to log onto this server
> with my ssh key or password.  Is there a way to keep shadow passwords
> as a failover method for logging in if the LDAP server is down?

What is listed in your /etc/nsswitch.conf for passwd, shadow and group?

If you do not have an entry for 'files' then the local /etc/{passwd,shadow,group} files will not be searched.

Hope this helps.

Tom