On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 10:42:44PM -0400, Chris Ricker wrote: > 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 ;-). It seems to be pam layer bugs in part but as you say its non trivial. There are some possible fixes sittin gin bugzilla.