From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 3 15: 8:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (border.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D68F151D1 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 15:08:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <40329>; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 07:46:56 +1000 Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 08:06:12 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: NSS Project To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <99Aug4.074656est.40329@border.alcanet.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oscar Bonilla wrote: >If anyone has any comments, suggestions, etc. I would appreciate it. Overall, I like the idea of NSS. But, having worked on Solaris 2.x for some time, we need to avoid some of the blunders Sun made: The biggest problem with Sun's NSS implementation is that it's no longer possible to statically link an application that uses any of the get...byname() functions that have NSS backends. We need to be able to build an application that has no dynamically loaded code for recovery purposes (/stand and /sbin) as well as for security. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message