According to the glibc developer Ulrich Drepper, nscd should be able to handle disconnected operations.
See <URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=145044 > and <URL: http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2132 > for background information. An alternative solution is to get sssd into Debian, but its WNPP request (#579593) is still not acted on. Besides, I have problems getting sssd to work, but suspect that is only because I do not yet know how to configure it properly. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org