From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 27 11:34:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD5DF15559 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:34:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jrs@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 28093 invoked from network); 27 Aug 1999 18:33:03 -0000 Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (jrs@207.229.143.40) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 27 Aug 1999 18:33:03 -0000 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 13:33:03 -0500 (CDT) From: John Sconiers To: Oscar Bonilla Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NSS Project In-Reply-To: <19990803095333.A14120@fisicc-ufm.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was looking for followups to this thread and have searched the archives for more information without luck. I have a few questions. Has this project furthered any and where can one get the diffs / source??? Is there a website that goes in depth about the project. JOHN > Following on the NSS (Name Service Switch): > *Step One: I ported the NetBSD implementation of nsdispatch(3) as implemented > by Luke Mewburn. See attached patch to libc and new header file. I'm also > attaching the man page for /etc/nsswitch.conf. Right now it compiles, > installs, and works for some simple tests I've run. > *Step Two: make getpwent, getgrent, and friends actually use the nsdispatch > function. I've already started looking at the source, but am having trouble > with the NIS part. Maybe someone more knowledgeable could write the NIS > function. > Basically we have to reduce each of the functions to a simple nsdispatch > call and then implement the real functions... Here's an example from > getpwent.c To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message