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.
