From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 3 11:37:06 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08729 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:37:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles240.castles.com [208.214.165.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08717 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:37:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08441; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:30:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902031930.LAA08441@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Casper cc: tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: YP-like mySQL thing In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Feb 1999 20:59:18 +0400." <36B88066.349DA9B3@acc.am> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 11:30:22 -0800 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id LAA08723 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 > boot .... IMHO, in this case you need to have separate functions that using only > master.passwd to read configuration. What, you mean like PAM? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message