Password sync plugin, and questions about plugin criticality

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Tuesday, June 27, 2006 01:12:57 PM -0500 Nicolas Williams 
<Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> wrote:

>> I don't think I can; some people absolutely want external password sync
>> to happen before the password gets written locally; other people
>> want the exact opposite.
>
> Why?  Do they expect atomicity?

Presumably they expect passwords to always be updated in a particular 
order, for whatever operational reason.