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Date:      Thu, 31 Aug 2000 00:03:07 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Request for review: nsswitch
Message-ID:  <39AD222B.CE9A26B5@newsguy.com>
References:  <20000830071347.A1167@hamlet.nectar.com>

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"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
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