Quoting Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Actually, that's not true at all. I could be in any of a dozen different
> > buildings at MIT, at my house, at Usenix or IETF or some other conference
> --
>
> Yep, NetworkManager rocks for this.
Except it wont bring me up on the network until I'm logged in...
> > and I should be able to use my standard network login from any of those
> > locations.
>
> I completely agree! The PAM cached credentials work should fix this.
but I shouldn't have to use cached credentials -- I can acquire real credentials
if I were just on the network. I don't need to use PAM cached creds in this
situation. I just need IP before login.
> > And I don't even want to think about the hell that OpenAFS would be!
>
> Most network file systems were designed before the roaming laptop era,
> and do not account for the network arbitrarily disappearing and instead
> like to eat applications by blocking them in IO wait state (hi NFS!).
> I don't know whether OpenAFS is similar but I imagine so.
Actually, AFS works just fine with changing the IP Address out from under it.
In fact, I think it can generally even be started without the network nowadays,
too.
> I just gave up on network file systems like NFS for my laptop long ago.
Not me. :-/
-derek
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Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
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