authconfig question

[Brian Gaynor]

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 13:32, Paulo Silva wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using the authconfig tool to configure the system's authentication
> through an OpenLDAP local server. I was wondering what happened when the
> server is down and I noticed that all authentication fails, even those
> in the passwd file. By altering the pam_unix account line in the
> /etc/pam.d/system-auth file from:
> 
>    account required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so
> 
> to
> 
>   account sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so
> 
> I was able to get the desired effect. Has this any security problem?
> Shouldn't the default configuration be like this?

I just had the same problem, ended up booting in rescue mode and
disabling LDAP authentication to be able to log back on. I will give
your fix a try.

Brian