Hi, I am planning on starting to use LDAP for userid/password and group management. Everything is working fine and it was not a big problem setting it up, but I am wondering what the effects will be if the machines are for some reason not able to reach the LDAP server(s) any more. The most critical processes are mysql databases as well as tomcat and apache webservers serving static files and servlets. Closely following in importance are email servers. What are the implications for those processes if the LDAP server is not available any more? I noticed that users can not be authenticated any more (of course) but also authenticating local users (root) takes much longer, probably because the authentication module is waiting for the LDAP timeout first. I do not use the LDAP server for mysql authentication or anything that has to do with servlets, except for the fact that the class- and other files the servlets are using belong to users/groups that are defined in the LDAP server and would then be unknown. Would this be a problem for the web or DB server processes/daemons as long as I do not restart them while the LDAP servers are unavailable? Any hints/ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, MARK
