With this sort of authentication scheme what happens when the network connection goes down or the LDAP server crashes? Can you no longer login? Or can you only login to local accounts? Ideally I would like to have centralized authentication management, but if the central server goes down to still have a local read-only copy of the authentication data. Is something like this possible? Or would it be easier to just sync passwd files?
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