Great to have more feedback on this issue. :) I hope someone with knowledge and experience on offline operation of a networked laptop can share their view. :)
[Marco d'Itri] > And what about the increased memory usage on large systems? What increased memory usage? I got nscd running on a laptop connected to the university of Oslo with ~60000 users and ~6000 groups, and do not see large memory usage by nscd. > I am not persuaded at all that this change is appropriate for the > default configuration. I'd even say that supporting offline nscd > lookups is a corner case that does not justify the possible negative > effects for everybody else. Well, at least here at the university, laptops are becoming the normal setup, and having offline authentication and operation work is becoming a vital requirement. :) If bugs #485282, #566718 and #568577 are solved, it would be a simple matter of installing nscd and libpam-ccreds to get it in Debian. :) > What about deleted user? Deleted users still existing for 30 days > could be a nasty security issue. You seem to be arguing only against the increased positive time to live. Is that the case? For offline operation, I suspect the "reload-count unlimited" setting is the most important one. If increased timeout is left out from the default configuration, please implement support for sourcing /etc/default/nscd and allow a policy compliant mechanism to replace the configuration file used by nscd. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org