In <200007090325.NAA25738@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au>
darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au wrote:

>> # I think a better question is "why is kerberos being built in by default ?"

>> I think an even better question is 'why will it not just fall back and change
>> the local password when it can't contact kerberos or yp'?

> Ah, no.  If I set it up for kerberos/yp, I don't want that to happen.

I think it should be configurable to enable or disable kerberos
at runtime by some configuration files (like passwd.conf/nsswitch.conf).
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Izumi Tsutsui
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