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Date:      Thu, 27 May 1999 22:03:02 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Andy Doran <ad@fionn.sports.gov.uk>
To:        Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
Cc:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NSS
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.4.10.9905272202150.647-100000@vmunix.psn.ie>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905280524540.71236-100000@iclub.nsu.ru>

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NetBSD has had this for a while.

- ad

On Fri, 28 May 1999, Max Khon wrote:

> hi, there!
> 
> On Thu, 27 May 1999, Chuck Robey wrote:
> 
> > > Are there any projects to implement NSS under FreeBSD (or other *BSDs)?
> > 
> > Might be courteous of you, if you could at least include *some* kind of
> > definition of what NSS is (like maybe a web pointer?)
> 
> ah, I'm sorry. NSS stands for "Name Service Switch"
> NSS is implemented in Solaris 2.5 and glibc2.
> Some NSS info is available at
> http://www.rage.net/ldap/nss.shtml
> 
> If FreeBSD had NSS it would be possible to use LDAP server
> (OpenLDAP) + nss_ldap instead of NIS.
> 
> LDAP + pam_ldap partially solve this problem but LDAP + nss_ldap is much
> better solution.
> 
> /fjoe
> 
> 
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