[Samba] winbind authentication with fallback

[Christian Merrill]

Pau Capdevila wrote:

>Hi,
>
>We use Active Directory users to login into our GNU/Linux workstations.
>If the network is down, is there any way to use a fallback method to
>login with the same profile (user, homedir, etc)?
>
>Thank you,
>
>Pau
>  
>
On windows you can do this because the domain account information is 
cached after an initial local logon.  I'm not sure of any way to 
replicate this behavior on Linux -- and perhaps a more important 
question would be: from a security standpoint would you really want to?

Christian