Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:52:41 -0400 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.x, LDAP and caching uid/gid data Message-ID: <1D7F3A83-C580-4473-A8D2-BF05A68AD076@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20050608164118.G23444@mail.goinet.com> References: <v0310280cbeccdb8867d8@[192.168.11.10]> <5EE9BD2D-25F2-40C1-A166-2359C9C11788@mac.com> <20050608164118.G23444@mail.goinet.com>
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On Jun 8, 2005, at 5:42 PM, Tony Shadwick wrote: >> I am not sure that lookupd has been used or tested or shaken down >> as much with FreeBSD, so the integration with PAM may not be as >> mature as it's usage with the nss_ mechanism. >> >> However, if you really want nscd, I'd imagine that you ought to be >> able to hunt that down from Sun now that the source code for >> Solaris 10 is openly available...? > > What about caching, as he asked originally? If a laptop user > "walks away" from the network where the LDAP or NIS server is > located, will it cache auth info so the user can still get in? For a while, and the timeouts for caching stuff are adjustable. That being said, laptop users are going to do much better if their specific UID/GID are added to the local flatfiles. Integrating laptops to work while connected and while not connected is a relatively hard problem. -- -Chuck
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