From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 30 11:26:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from merc95.us.sas.com (merc95.us.sas.com [149.173.6.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B583E37B422 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:26:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from merc95.us.sas.com ([127.0.0.1]) by merc95.us.sas.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2651.58) id RVYT53K5; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:26:19 -0400 Received: from 10.28.149.26 by merc95.us.sas.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:26:19 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Received: from bb01f39.unx.sas.com (bb01f39.unx.sas.com [10.16.2.246]) by mozart.unx.sas.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA26697; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:26:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jwd@localhost) by bb01f39.unx.sas.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA87084; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:26:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jwd) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:26:17 -0400 From: John DeBoskey To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , "Jacques A. Vidrine" Subject: Re: Request for review: nsswitch Message-ID: <20000830142617.B86368@unx.sas.com> References: <20000830071347.A1167@hamlet.nectar.com> <39AD222B.CE9A26B5@newsguy.com> <20000830132053.A15387@hamlet.nectar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000830132053.A15387@hamlet.nectar.com>; from n@nectar.com on Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:20:53PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Jacques A. Vidrine's Original Message ----- > On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:03:07AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > 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...? > > I'm not sure I agree. The types of things that have configuration > exampes in /etc/defaults are quite complicated. nsswitch.conf is simple > and described entirely in the man page. Also, if there is no > /etc/nsswitch.conf, the internal defaults are sane. > > -- > Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org How about a simple compromise? While the internal defaults may be sane, they are `invisible' to the average user. What if we put the defaults into a /etc/defaults/nsswitch.conf file. If they need to be overridden locally, then a /etc/nsswitch.conf file is created and the defaults version is ignored.. ?? -John -- FreeBSD... The choice of those who know how to choose... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message