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
