From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Sep 4 20:21: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DEA837B422; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 20:20:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA19797; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 20:21:09 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAA.baaHM; Mon Sep 4 20:20:59 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA04806; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 20:20:39 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200009050320.UAA04806@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Request for review: nsswitch To: winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 03:20:39 +0000 (GMT) Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), n@nectar.com (Jacques A. Vidrine), ume@FreeBSD.ORG (Hajimu UMEMOTO), arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Matthew N. Dodd" at Sep 03, 2000 01:40:10 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. :) I always thought that it was for the same reason that root does not have "." in its path by default. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message