[Fedora-directory-users] Authentication Cache While Offline

[James Chamberlain]

Hi Richi,

By any chance, have you checked out pam_ccreds?

James

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Richi Plana wrote:

> Hi, All.
> 
> Any suggestions/leads?:
> 
> On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 10:25 -0600, Richi Plana wrote:
> > Hi, All.
> > 
> > On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 00:03 -0600, Richi Plana wrote:
> > > I recently set up fedora-ds and managed to configure several FC5
> > > machines to authenticate and get user information from the LDAP server.
> > > Unfortunately, the laptop isn't always connected to the network so when
> > > it boots up, the process hangs when it tries to start the "message bus".
> > > I figure the process blocks when it tries to change UID to that of the
> > > dbus user. When the machine isn't connected to the network (ie. no cable
> > > and wireless isn't available), the process just hangs.
> > > 
> > > Any suggestions on fixing this?
> > 
> > So I've implemented one fix. For some reason, even
> > with /etc/nsswitch.conf configured as follows, FC5 systems still go to
> > LDAP even if a user exists locally (dbus user exists in /etc/passwd):
> > 
> > /etc/nsswitch.conf:
> > ...
> > passwd: files ldap
> > shadow: files ldap
> > group: files ldap
> > ...
> > 
> > 
> > So the solution I applied was to edit /etc/ldap.conf and added the entry
> > "bind_policy hard". This is supposed to make nss_ldap exit after failing
> > a connection attempt (instead of the default infinite retries).
> > 
> > My problem now is that none of my DS users can log on to the
> > newly-started machine. I thought that's what the "Cache User
> > Information" option in system-config-authentication -> Account
> > Information does, but it apparently doesn't. Is there a way to cache
> > LDAP Authentication and Account information so that offline machines
> > will allow logons from LDAP users? Kind of like how WinXP does?
>