From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 22 07:40:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8386116A4BF; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 07:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEA3243FB1; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 07:40:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from richardcoleman@mindspring.com) Received: from c-24-98-233-138.atl.client2.attbi.com ([24.98.233.138] helo=mindspring.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19qD5Z-0006fz-00; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 07:40:29 -0700 Message-ID: <3F462B60.50405@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:40:32 -0400 From: Richard Coleman Organization: Critical Magic, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ruslan Ermilov References: <3F459D29.2030009@mindspring.com> <20030822054454.GA51245@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20030822054454.GA51245@sunbay.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: 1ee258965991efcb0865379cdb43356e5e89bb4777695beb702e37df12b9c9efb5099eaf1abd7d1640521a4fa471b1d7350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: status of nsswitch.conf in current? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: richardcoleman@mindspring.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:40:32 -0000 I saw that. I guess my question is whether a default nsswitch.conf file will be checked into /etc and /usr/share/examples/etc, or whether it will be left empty? I would expect that if this capability was working, that a default nsswitch.conf would be checked into /etc. Many admins may not know the system has this capability unless they see a copy of nsswitch.conf in /etc. My next question is related to nss_ldap. Are there plans to add some type of credentials caching daemon to speed up use of LDAP (or other database) when using nsswitch.conf? If the hooks are there, I would be willing to work on this myself. Richard Coleman richardcoleman@mindspring.com Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:33:45AM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: > >>What is the status of nsswitch.conf in current? >> >>I noticed that there is a man page for "nsswitch.conf". But there is no >>such file installed in /etc, nor is there an example copy in >>/usr/share/examples/etc. >> >>I just cvsup'ed tonight (Thursday) and built world. So, I'm up to date. >> > > Please see the ``Default source lists'' section of the nsswitch.conf(5) > manpage that talks about this case.