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 capo@white.bunnies.bsdconspiracy.net OK, so the solar flares are my fault.. I am sorry, ok?!?! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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