Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 08:20:01 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Robert Watson <robert+sfs@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: Charles Quarri <randy@hackerz.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hesiod support on 2.2 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980403080839.22317K-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980402201943.21311J-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Robert Watson wrote: > On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Narvi wrote: > > > > I am curious is anyone has used hesiod in FreeBSD 2.2 and how > > > much modification needs to be made to the source (if any) needs > > > to be done to get it working. > > > > I have looked at the source (still have it unpacked), but I didn't do > > anything much with it. Would be cool if FreeBSD had an option like > > "MAKE_KERBEROS4" which would build all utilities (w, ps, etc.) with full > > hesiod support... > > I was under the impression that Hesiod did not require w/ps/etc to be > recompiled due to toehold, or was that an MIT-only thing? I thought they I have not seen toehold anywhere... And somewho w, ps, ls, etc. have to be told to talk to hesiod to get the uid<->name mappings. > dynamically allocated UIDs when the user logged in (this was the toehold > step), and added them to passwd, etc. They also had a magic NFS that > converted UIDs to Kerberos identities. The identity information would be > pulled out of the HS-class DNS records and used to synthesize a local > account. At least, this is what I heard via Derrick Brashear > <shadow@andrew.cmu.edu>. :) And this all would certainly be hyper cool. But I doubt this all is available in the hesiod distribution. > > This gets around the 32k user limit on some older UNIX machines, and helps > in that you don't have to redo a pwd_mkdb on ten thousand users each time > a small change occurs. > > I may have a severe misconception as to how this works, of course, but it > seems pretty novel. > > Robert N Watson > Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. > > ---- > Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ > Trusted Information Systems http://www.tis.com/ > SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ > robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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