Hello, I've followed one of the online instructions on how to configure my system to use ldap as the user authentication mechanism. below is partial content of my /etc/pam.d/system.auth file: #%PAM-1.0 # This file is auto-generated. # User changes will be destroyed the next time authconfig is run. auth required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_env.so auth sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so likeauth nullok auth sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_ldap.so use_first_pass auth required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
looking at some online resources about how pam works, it seems that unix authentication is being applied first, and only if it fails, ldap authentication is applied. Am I correct here? In other words if all the users are still in /etc/shadow and /etc/passd files.... ldap is NOT being used for authentication. If I delete the users from /etc/passwd... then LDAP is used.... right>?
thx, ~Hamid
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