On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 12:44, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 08:10:30AM -0600, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> The standard way I have seen it implemented on other versions of Linux
> (here and other large organizations) is that the central authentication
> is used first in the pam stack and if it fails/isnt available you get
> authorized against the local password db which if it works lets you in.
"Other versions" including Red Hat Linux up until it suddenly stopped
working circa version 7.3.
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55193>
That bug report is over 2 1/2 years old without a single comment from
Nalin. Maybe Nalin doesn't maintain it anymore or is too busy - but
either way, maybe it should be re-assigned to another engineer?
Regards,
-Matt
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