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Subject: bin/27994: Really functioning nsswitch in FreeBSD
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>Number:         27994
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       FreeBSD should have really functioning nsswitch
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jun 09 13:20:02 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Gyori Sandor
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Technical University of Budapest
>Environment:

	FreeBSD 4.x or -CURRENT

>Description:

	FreeBSD 4.x has no support to nsswitch, and even the -CURRENT
supports only very few, predefined methods such as files, nis, nisplus for
user authentication in nsswitch.conf. Dynamical modules can't be used, for
example nss_ldap for authentication via LDAP. There are patches to solve
this problem at http://www.nectar.com/freebsd/nsswitch, but only a part of
them was built in to -CURRENT (the statical part). Why?? This is a serious
deficiency of FreeBSD which has been solved on Linux for ages. Is there any
security or other reason not to implement a fully functional nsswitch
feature on FreeBSD?

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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