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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.

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