Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 14:02:56 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel type Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1001217140141.48123M-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20001217130100.B62616@hamlet.nectar.com>
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On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:27:55PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > > -- I've been seriously considering looking at adapting > > FreeBSD to use netinfo also, given that it provides a time-tested model > > for configuration management (local and distributed). It probably needs > > some cleaning up in the security sense, and possibly rewriting, but it's a > > strong starting point, and liberally licensed. > > Most of netinfo will be supported via nsswitch and PADL.COM's > nss-netinfo for FreeBSD 5.0. That's great news -- I assume however that this is limited to the account directory service functionality, as opposed to the more general configuration parameters (login.conf equivs, etc)? Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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