From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 3 11:19:46 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05686 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:19:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from circe.bonn-online.com (circe.bonn-online.com [195.52.214.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05673 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:19:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lederer@bonn-online.com) Received: from bonn-online.com (ppp136.dialin.bonn-online.com [194.162.223.136]) by circe.bonn-online.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA17866 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 20:19:29 +0100 Message-ID: <36B8A152.C10E3B71@bonn-online.com> Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 20:19:46 +0100 From: Sebastian Lederer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: YP-like mySQL thing References: <199902020728.KAA06671@shuttle.svib.ru> <36B88066.349DA9B3@acc.am> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Casper wrote: > > What about having separate dynamic loadable modules with standard API for doing > authorization/access control , simulate getpw*() functions & etc .... Modules > list to read into may be hard-coded into libc or it may be read during system Maybe it's time for FreeBSD to include nsswitch or irs. BTW, NetBSD has recently grown some nsswitch code, although it can't dynamically load nsswitch modules (yet). And please don't say "send me the diffs", because this is rather a "political" issue, not a technical one. Regards, Sebastian Lederer -- Sebastian Lederer lederer@bonn-online.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message