On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 00:37, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> For me, though, the biggest problem is the generic pam / glibc /
moon phase
> / whatever interaction where RH and Fedora systems blow up badly, failing to
> degrade back to existing local accounts, if a distributed information /
> authentication (LDAP, krb, NIS) is down.... Any enterprise that's going
> Kerberos, IMHO, can mostly work around the rest simply by pushing out more
> functional software than what RH ships, but that one can be kinda a pain to
> work around....
Yeah, I'm not quite sure what's going on here. At the same time, it's
definitely not an unsolvable problem. And since this is Havoc's
wishlist thread, we should make sure that fixing this ends up in
there ;)
This isn't the first strong customer request for disconnected operation.
I have no idea what's involved though (it seems like there would be some
tricky security issues?). I could ask Nalin, but public lists beat
hallway conversations. ;-)
Havoc