Re: nscd and glibc news

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Once upon a time Thursday 09 September 2004 9:20 pm, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> I usually don't do this but there are some changes coming which people
> should be aware of and which deserve special testing.
>
>
> First, I spent a great deal of time on nscd.  The version in the current
> FC3 test is quite different from old code and starting with the 2.3.3-50
> glibc (not published yet) there will be another big change.
>
> The nscd in FC3 now supports persistent database.  The information
> gathered cached is not lost when the nscd process is terminated.  This
> means right after startup a lot of information is already available, no
> need to go to the services.  Along with the change nscd was changed to
> reload data when the timeout time is reached.  This means in general no
> delay here either.  Entries which are in constant use probably won't
> leave the cache at all.
Does this mean that if i use say kerberos on my laptop and authenticate 
against a server if i use my laptop  somewhere else like at home of at school 
etc  that i will still be able to login?

Dennis

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