From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 14 16:23:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from outgoing.redshift.com (outgoing.redshift.com [216.228.2.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AD1F37B793 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:23:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nobody@redshift.com) Received: from RedShift.com (mail.redshift.com [216.228.2.86]) by outgoing.redshift.com (8.9.3/) with ESMTP id QAA28023 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:23:33 -0800 Received: from www.redshift.com (www.redshift.com [216.228.2.89]) by RedShift.com (8.9.3/) with ESMTP id QAA06566 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:23:31 -0800 Received: by www.redshift.com (8.8.5) id QAA09607; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:23:32 -0800 Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:23:32 -0800 Message-Id: <200003150023.QAA09607@www.redshift.com> To: "" From: "yramin" Reply-To: "yramin" Subject: LDAP NIS replacement X-Mail-Gateway: WebMail X-Real-Host-From: 131.120.8.59 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, New to the list, but I'm looking into developing a way to authenticate and grab user information from an LDAP server compared to /etc/passwd and company, or NIS. I was poking around the library code and noticed that FreeBSD does not have NSS (name service switch) support (otherwise I would use nss_ldap already out there - it doesn't compile under FreeBSD even with IRS use enabled, I've tried ). What would be the best way to write new getpwent(), etc. routines for FreeBSD? I could stick them into a library and have programs that want to use them link to it, but that is a pain (although quite portable :)). I'm working on a PAM system first (yes, pam_ldap is out there, but it sucks, lots of linuxisms), but would be interested getting some work done on this as well. Any thoughts, advice, pointers? Yann To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message