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Re: RFC: Going the LDAP/Kerberos way with NetBSD.



On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:25:19PM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
> Consider: if your ldap server fails, do you want the flat files to be
> consulted instead?  Will they be up to date and synchronized, or will they
> be some old version, possible the installed default or some early remnant?
> Will there be some way to ensure/report/test that they're synchronized, some
> warning that they were used in lieu of the ldap server, some way to discover
> which mechanism was used to render a particular result?  


Only fall back to the flat files by default and not if $somevariable is set
in /etc/rc.conf?


        Geert




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