On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 15:30, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > 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. ;-) It's twofold. One might need disconnected operations, in that you log in as a user found in an LDAP directory. It can probably be discussed wether you should be allowed to log in as that user if you pull your network plug ;), or that everything should continue to work if you pull it after you already logged in. The other thing is wether to log in to the box at all(to a local account) if you configured ldap/kerberos/etc. in system-config-auth Currently you cannot, which is very bad. Last I looked at it, it's just a matter of changing some "required" to "suffcient" or similar in /etc/pam.d/system-auth
