From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 17 11: 3:12 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 11:03:10 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18FA637B400 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 11:03:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id eBHJ2ve51023; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 14:02:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 14:02:56 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel type In-Reply-To: <20001217130100.B62616@hamlet.nectar.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:27:55PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > > -- I've been seriously considering looking at adapting > > FreeBSD to use netinfo also, given that it provides a time-tested model > > for configuration management (local and distributed). It probably needs > > some cleaning up in the security sense, and possibly rewriting, but it's a > > strong starting point, and liberally licensed. > > Most of netinfo will be supported via nsswitch and PADL.COM's > nss-netinfo for FreeBSD 5.0. That's great news -- I assume however that this is limited to the account directory service functionality, as opposed to the more general configuration parameters (login.conf equivs, etc)? Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message