Re: trying to login in locally as root using pam_ldap while network down.

[Vadim Vatlin <silent@corbina.net>]

On 12:30:48  Окт 22, 2007, Jaime Ventura wrote:
> Hello,
>    Im having troubles when trying to login in locally as root using 
> pam_ldap while network down.
>    There are several posts about this problem, but none of the 
> solutions worked for me.
>    On my tests I've found that if the system has, at least, access to 
> the dns server,  then  local login would  be  much faster.
>    I've also found that if i delete the nameserver on /etc/resolv.conf 
> (causing the name resolution to fail imediactly) then  local login 
> would  be  equaly faster.
> This makes me think that the delay is caused by the name resolution and 
> not the pam_ldap itself.
> Reducing the bind_timelimit would make no diference.
> 
>    Is there any way to reduce the name resolution timeout?
> Thanks

have you tried this:
	bind_policy soft
in conjunction with 
	bind_timelimit 10