[nycbug-talk] External Authentication Implementation in FreeBSD

[Christopher Olsen]

What I was hoping was if it can do something similar to way the way 
workstations work from a windows domain if the domain is there they will 
log right onto it if by chance it's not available it will use cached 
credentials to get them onto the workstation.


Matt Juszczak wrote:
> What about "ldapifying" the LDAP servers?  If server1 is LDAP primary 
> and server2 is LDAP secondary, should you put nss_ldap/pam_ldap on 
> those boxes, have them connect to the local instance, and have it 
> failover to files just in case the LDAP process is down?  or should 
> those boxes that drive authentication and authorization, etc. be 
> driven by local files/system only?