I have been using Fedora Core's pam_ccreds package to allow my laptop to authenticate users even when it is disconnected from my network's LDAP server[1]. Recently, logging in to my computer when disconnected began to fail. It seems that I was incorrectly relying on nscd to cache information for long periods of time. Bug 150748 fixed nscd, but made it difficult to abuse it in the way I require. After doing some research, I found nss_updatedb, a utility that maintains a local cache of network directory user and group information. However, nss_updatedb is not included in Fedora Core. What is the preferred way to use pam_ccreds on Fedora? Is anyone else using this PAM module? Is nss_updatedb a prerequisite and, if so, will it be packaged for Fedora? I think disconnected authentication is an important feature for Fedora and would like to help work on it. [1] See the thread that starts at: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00368.html -- Mike -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
