Bill, Sorry forgot to mention that on the pam_ldap line is where u setup the timeout HTH, J. Jesse Jacobs said: > 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
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