Login as a domain user when the domain controller is down with winbind

[Lin Li]

Simo Sorce wrote:

>On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 20:52, Lin Li wrote:
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>>In windows when you loging as a domain user and if the domain controller 
>>is down, the system will let you in with some local cache. Is there any 
>>way for winbind to achieve this or is there any plan to have this 
>>functionality?
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>>Also, when you logged in as a domain user and suddenlly the domain 
>>controller is down, the system becomes unusable. Have a local cache may 
>>help solve this.
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>I have an work in progress here:
>http://samba.org/~idra/pubdir/pam_last_cache-0.2.tar.gz
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>I have some plans to extend it further to keep some more info but time
>is low for me, if you want to help out, you're wellcome.
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>This module is targeted mainly toward ldap/winbind mobile users that
>need to access their own data even when out of the office while keeping
>a central point of authentication while in place at their office.
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>Simo.
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For the pam module, I'd like to add some args so it can be configured to 
cache multiple users and set a cache timeout. Also we should have a nss 
module.

Thanks,
Lin

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