Password sync plugin, and questions about plugin criticality

[Ken Hornstein]

>Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> writes:
>
>> So, you want kadmind to block on the password sync?
>
>I want kadmind to wait to update the local database until the remote
>password sync succeeds or fails.  Blocking kadmind in general isn't the
>most thrilling idea in the world.  Our existing solution for this forks
>for each incoming client session for that reason.  (I don't recall if MIT
>kadmind does so or not and can't tell from some quick grepping.)

It does not, AFAIK (the local database update doesn't take very long,
so there's never been a need).

--Ken