From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 30 12:43:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A30037B424 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:43:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA65247; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:43:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200008301943.MAA65247@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: Request for review: nsswitch In-Reply-To: <39AD222B.CE9A26B5@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "Aug 31, 2000 00:03:07 am" To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:43:00 -0700 (PDT) Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- 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