Primarily that it would take 10 minutes per machine and i had only 5 minutes. Anyway, i *knew* the dangers, did not visit the web etc. while doing this. I have never heard of "nscd", but i have heard of that-nice-litte-checkbox. That is called userfriendlyness. tir, 19.10.2004 kl. 17.56 skrev Xose Vazquez Perez: > Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > > > I had a very good reason to login as root some days ago. In gui. > > > > The LDAP system collapsed (or, more consicely, it somehow beginned to > > take 5 minutes to get a GNOME login (where 5-10 sec is normal...). So, i > > logged in as root, ran system-config-authentification, turned on user > > info cacheing, logged back out, and things worked. > > what's wrong with logging as any unprivileged user, to open a xterm, > to run "su -" and then system-config-authentification ? > > -- > Hello, this is Darl McBride, and I pronounce Linux as UNIX. >
