From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 12 16:12:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (leviathan.inethouston.net [66.64.12.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00EA437B402 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:12:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id F21B2319BD4; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:12:56 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:12:56 -0600 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: current@freebsd.org Subject: FW: Re: windbindd Message-ID: <20020213001256.GA24281@leviathan.inethouston.net> Reply-To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Mail-Followup-To: current@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there any way to impliment dl_open in our nsswitch for -current so that samba's winbindd can work on FreeBSD? ----- Forwarded message from Richard Sharpe ----- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:29:24 +1030 Reply-To: rsharpe@ns.aus.com From: Richard Sharpe To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Cc: rsharpe@ns.aus.com, SAMBA TECH List Subject: Re: windbindd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020205 David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: >On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 10:48:09AM +1030, Richard Sharpe wrote: > >>David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: >> >>>>>Is there any reason winbindd is not supported on FreeBSD? I'm just >>>>>curious of the hold ups, maybe I can get things rolling from the >>>>>FreeBSD team if there is anything we need to do? >>>>> >>>>This is an interesting question. Here at Panasas we have rolled our own >>>>support by communicating directly using TCP. >>>> >>>>The issue, when I last looked at it, was a good nsswitch implementation. >>>> >>>>I would be interested in keeping across this issue. >>>> >>>Well FreeBSD-STABLE (4.x) doesn't have nsswitch, but FreeBSD-current (5.x) >>>does. That may be part of the problem. >>> >> >>That was the first problem I encountered ... I suspect that, barring >>some screwed up tests in configure, it will work. I guess I should >>update my repository and check out FreeBSD-current and see. >> >> >I would appreciate it if you could let me know what you find. As the >maintainer of the FreeBSD samba port I have received a few requests >about this. > Hmmm, having had a brief look at what I think is FreeBSD-current, it seems that the nsswitch implementation does not use dl_open to pick up shared libs so that it can be extended ... :-( This is a crucial piece of functionality for winbindd, it seems. >-- >Richard Sharpe, rsharpe@ns.aus.com, rsharpe@samba.org, sharpe@ethereal.com >www.samba.org, www.ethereal.com, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba >in 24 Hours, Special Edition, Using Samba > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message