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On Wed, 2006-21-06 at 18:39 -0700, Paul B. Henson wrote: |
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> In general, I only use central authentication/naming systems for real |
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> users, not local system users. My central authentication/naming is |
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> shared across a number of different operating systems, and just |
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> because a particular Gentoo ebuild wants to create a user named foobar |
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> doesn't mean I suddenly want that user to be visible on my Solaris |
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> systems... |
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I'll second that. In addition, local accounts allow some failsafe if |
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you need to log into the box and the remote authentication system has |
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failed. |
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./JRH |
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