From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 22 3:38: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from iclub.nsu.ru (iclub.nsu.ru [193.124.222.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9F5514CC4 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 03:37:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Received: from localhost (fjoe@localhost) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA67485; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 17:11:45 +0700 (NSS) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 17:11:45 +0700 (NSS) From: Max Khon To: Oscar Bonilla Cc: Wes Peters , Mike Smith , "David E. Cross" , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <19990719180026.A830@fisicc-ufm.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, there! On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 04:51:12PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > The implementation details are as unimportant as ever: they have to work > > and be maintainable. Following prior art remains a good idea; the Solaris > > "name service switch" implementation is a good starting point to consider. > > > > I agree. In solaris (and linux by the way) all you do is set > passwd ldap files > in /etc/nsswitch.conf > and that's it. > > I had started to write the code to mess with libc to "fix" the getpwent stuff, > but a better solution is to "port" the nsswitch stuff from linux (i don't have > source from solaris :) glibc NSS impl. is GPL-poisoned and the author of that impl. (sorry, do not even remember his name) does not want to distribute it under BSD-style copyright. better try to port NetBSD impl. /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message