On 07/15/2010 08:37 AM, Brian Marshall wrote: > Yes but I have worked in many organizations that use directory > services for authentication and my machines with them have always > cached authentication data so I can login if I'm not online. I can't > expect laptop users to always have a network connection. If Mac OS > and Windows can manage to cache network authentication for offline > use, I can't believe that linux does not have this capability. Fedora does. It was introduced in Fedora 13, using sssd. The standard tools should configure sssd rather than nscd.