Not strictly limited to Kerberos - long login delays when system is offline

[Russ Allbery]

Darek M <fafaforza at gmail.com> writes:

> What are you guys doing not to make your systems unusable when LDAP is
> unavailable?  Are you bypassing it entirely and using Kerberos only
> somehow?

We add explicit local /etc/passwd entries for those users who need to be
able to access systems when LDAP is down (primarily systems
administrators).  For general end-users, we just make sure LDAP is always
avaialble.  :)

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>