From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 16 2:56:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.datanet.hu (mx1.datanet.hu [194.149.13.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6619C37B402 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 02:56:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from fonix.adamsfamily.xx (nilus-152.adsl.datanet.hu [195.56.92.151]) by mx1.datanet.hu (DataNet) with ESMTP id 49939F92A for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 11:56:54 +0100 (CET) Received: (from cc@localhost) by fonix.adamsfamily.xx (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1GAv6D36617 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 11:57:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sziszi@bsd.hu) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 11:57:05 +0100 From: Szilveszter Adam To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why isn't PAM_smb available for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20020216105705.GC7705@fonix.adamsfamily.xx> Mail-Followup-To: Szilveszter Adam , current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020216035005.41685.qmail@web21106.mail.yahoo.com> <3C6E22E3.CB62ABAA@mindspring.com> <20020216155425.B50987@iclub.nsu.ru> <3C6E2E75.2393F2B3@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C6E2E75.2393F2B3@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 > ] WWW: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ So, just to clarify for the sake of the archives, the two NSS have not a lot in common. The NSS thing allegedly needed for Samba is only in -CURRENT AFAIK and has no ports. Some people already said earlier that FreeBSD's NSS implementation (see /etc/nsswitch.conf and its man page) leave things to be desired. Look under the archives with "nsswitch.conf" as your keyword. The "other" NSS that is the port quoted above, is actually the crypto services library from the Mozilla project (as the www.mozilla.org reference could have made it blindingly obvious:-) which builds on top of NSPR (also in the ports:-) and provides security services to the PSM module of Mozilla/NS6 (the above two acronyms stand for Netscape Portable Runtime and Personal Security Manager, respectively). It could also be used for your own programs, however, provided that the licensing suits you. And yes, acronym overload is rampant:-) probably because namespace pollution is a common problem in programming:-) -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Szombathely Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message