Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:43:00 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Request for review: nsswitch Message-ID: <200008301943.MAA65247@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <39AD222B.CE9A26B5@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "Aug 31, 2000 00:03:07 am"
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Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > "Jacques A. Vidrine" wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Patches adding nsswitch support to FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE, 4-STABLE, and > > 5-CURRENT can be found at: > > http://www.nectar.com/freebsd/nsswitch > > > > I would like to commit this support to -CURRENT in about a week or so. > > I'd appreciate a review of the patch. > > > > This brings over nsswitch functionality from NetBSD. /etc/nsswitch.conf > > controls lookups for group, hosts, networks, passwd, and shells > > databases. Database sources may be files, dns (Hesiod), nis, or a > > compat mode (using +/- in passwd and group databases) that uses nis or > > dns. You can see the man page linked from URL above. > > Being guilty of not having looked at it at all, but this sounds like a > typical case where we would want a /etc/defaults/nsswitch.conf with > overrides in /etc/nsswitch.conf...? No, I don't think so. We don't have an /etc/defaults/resolv.conf, and it is about on the same order. -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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