From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 2 17:24:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19235 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 17:24:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fledge.watson.org (root@FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.91.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19161 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 17:24:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.6.10) with SMTP id UAA10619; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 20:23:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 20:23:27 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: Narvi cc: Charles Quarri , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hesiod support on 2.2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Narvi wrote: > > I am curious is anyone has used hesiod in FreeBSD 2.2 and how > > much modification needs to be made to the source (if any) needs > > to be done to get it working. > > I have looked at the source (still have it unpacked), but I didn't do > anything much with it. Would be cool if FreeBSD had an option like > "MAKE_KERBEROS4" which would build all utilities (w, ps, etc.) with full > hesiod support... I was under the impression that Hesiod did not require w/ps/etc to be recompiled due to toehold, or was that an MIT-only thing? I thought they dynamically allocated UIDs when the user logged in (this was the toehold step), and added them to passwd, etc. They also had a magic NFS that converted UIDs to Kerberos identities. The identity information would be pulled out of the HS-class DNS records and used to synthesize a local account. At least, this is what I heard via Derrick Brashear . :) This gets around the 32k user limit on some older UNIX machines, and helps in that you don't have to redo a pwd_mkdb on ten thousand users each time a small change occurs. I may have a severe misconception as to how this works, of course, but it seems pretty novel. Robert N Watson ---- Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ Trusted Information Systems http://www.tis.com/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message