From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 20 13:49:37 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA23694 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 13:49:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu (friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu [129.186.185.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA23676 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 13:49:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu) Received: from friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu (localhost.res.iastate.edu [127.0.0.1]) by friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA61128; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:48:37 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu) Message-Id: <199901202148.PAA61128@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mike Nguyen cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/nsswitch.conf In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:53:34 CST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:48:37 -0600 From: Chris Csanady Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I noticed that NetBSD is switching over to using /etc/nsswitch.conf (like >Slowlaris, PH-UX, etc.). Would it be a good idea to do this for FreeBSD too >(when I first started using FreeBSD, it took me a long time to figure out the >analogous file for hostname lookups was /etc/host.conf) -- it seems >consolidating all that config information would in one place would be a good >thing. I would really like to see this integrated into FreeBSD. Does anyone have any plans to do this? It would be really nice to be able to do lookups using hesiod or perhaps even LDAP. Btw, has anyone looked at nsd in Irix6.5? It is quite interesting.. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message