From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 30 8: 5:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79EE437B424 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 08:05:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newsguy.com (p57-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.122]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id AAA10973; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 00:04:58 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <39AD222B.CE9A26B5@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 00:03:07 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review: nsswitch References: <20000830071347.A1167@hamlet.nectar.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jacques A. Vidrine" wrote: > > Hi, > > Patches adding nsswitch support to FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE, 4-STABLE, and > 5-CURRENT can be found at: > http://www.nectar.com/freebsd/nsswitch > > I would like to commit this support to -CURRENT in about a week or so. > I'd appreciate a review of the patch. > > This brings over nsswitch functionality from NetBSD. /etc/nsswitch.conf > controls lookups for group, hosts, networks, passwd, and shells > databases. Database sources may be files, dns (Hesiod), nis, or a > compat mode (using +/- in passwd and group databases) that uses nis or > dns. You can see the man page linked from URL above. Being guilty of not having looked at it at all, but this sounds like a typical case where we would want a /etc/defaults/nsswitch.conf with overrides in /etc/nsswitch.conf...? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@white.bunnies.bsdconspiracy.net OK, so the solar flares are my fault.. I am sorry, ok?!?! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message