On Tue, 11 May 2004, Havoc Pennington wrote: > In that case it should be an easy fix - what do the other guys do, let's > get the change in. > > The current situation seems to pretty obviously not work at all for > laptops, so security benefits are sort of irrelevant (a laptop may as > well be entombed in concrete if you can't log in while traveling...) Local accounts working when distributed source is down is AFAIK primarily pam configuration (though the 40 bazillion bugzilla reports about it point fingers all over the place -- debugging pam / nss / etc interactions is more complex than is good for quality bug reports ;-). later, chris
