On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Oliver Schulze L. wrote: > Hi, > I have a problem that when my slapd fails to start, I can no longer > login via ssh as a user that is in /etc/passwd > > How can I solve this? Editing /etc/nsswitch.conf o pam.d/ ? The easiest thing to do is to use authconfig to change your authentication parameters. PAM and nsswitch will be updated accordingly. Barry