From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Sep 2 22:42:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A987637B422; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 22:42:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA35605; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 01:40:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 01:40:10 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Hajimu UMEMOTO , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review: nsswitch In-Reply-To: <41094.967914166@critter> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Since we're on this topic anyway, there is one thing which has always > bothered me: Why don't we have the option of a per user alias file > for hostnames ? 'cause that feature would totally rule and we can't have any ruling as we're stodgy old BSD. :) While it would create a potential for many hair-pulling tech support calls I'd love to see the feature and a way to allow the admin to enable/disable it on a per-user or systemwide basis. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message