On 1105899721 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
>

>No, because offering theses will cause us problems with PAM. We already
>have enough with -K which is already there.
>
>Why was su -K introduced, BTW?

Presumably because if the KDC are unavailable it will take a long
time for the libraries to time out and try local passwords.  It is
less necessary for things like Hesiod/NIS because you can organise
/etc/nsswitch.conf to search files first for critical accounts.

Something along those lines might work with PAM.

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    Roland Dowdeswell                      http://www.Imrryr.ORG/~elric/