[Samba] winbind authentication with fallback
Christian Merrill
cmerrill at redhat.com
Tue Jan 11 19:10:29 GMT 2005
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
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