I have a problem with my authentification on a server I have set in access.conf this line -:ALL EXCEPT nagios root WEBAdmin:ALL in /etc/pam.d/sshd, I have add this line account required pam_access.so my nsswitch.conf is set like this passwd: files ldap shadow: files ldap group: files ldap But when my ldap server is down, the user nagios or root cannot connect to this server Error message: Read from remote host "an ip addr": Connection reset by peer Connection to "an ip addr" closed. but root and nagios are local to this server what's wrong in this setting?? -- Daniel Chénard SysAdmin Unix Infoteck Internet 5480, Boul. Jean XXIII Trois-Rivières-Ouest, Québec Canada G8Z 4A9 Tel: 819-370-3232 Sans Frais: 1-866-853-3232 Fax: 819-370-3624