Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 07:53:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NSS Project Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990804075249.20420x-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <99Aug4.074656est.40329@border.alcanet.com.au>
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On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu> 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. well you could just link in the shared nss object statically into it...? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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