Once upon a time Wednesday 12 May 2004 12:00 am, Chris Ricker wrote:
On Tue, 11 May 2004, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
Why invent a new caching? We already have an off-line authentication system
-- standard Unix authentication. Rather than caching authentication, I'd
just like fall back to local accounts when disconnected. When I'm in the
airport, I should still be able to log into my laptop authenticating
against /etc/shadow even though I'm either not on a network, or on a
network but not able to access my ldap server, my kdc, etc.
later,
chris
because organisations with thousands of users want to setup authentication
once only in a central place and have that information used for many
different services and servers as well as different machines.