On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:40, Weston Rogers <
wrogers@...> wrote:
> Just make sure root can access systems via console, and adjust
> console/login timeout settings appropriate, and it will work fine.
>
> Wes
>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 06:10, Kent Tong <
kent@...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Suppose that a server is using ldap_pam to authenticate users. What if there
>> is a network
>> problem or NIC problem preventing access to LDAP? Then root has to log in
>> against the local
>> Unix passwd DB. As it is better to use sudo instead of directly logging in
>> as root, it means
>> we have to create a normal user account locally for each administrator? This
>> kind of defeats
>> the purpose of having LDAP.
>>
>> How do you enable root access that still works when LDAP is inaccessible?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> -----
>> --
>> Kent Tong
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