Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 00:08:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Gyori Sandor <gyori@szit.bme.hu> To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: nsswitch dynamically loadable modules Message-ID: <20010610000004.V77923-100000@fourier.szit.bme.hu>
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Hello, FreeBSD 4.x has no support to nsswitch, and even the -CURRENT supports only very few, predefined methods such as files, nis, nisplus for user authentication in nsswitch.conf. Dynamically loadable modules can't be used, for example nss_ldap for authentication via LDAP. There are patches to solve this problem at http://www.nectar.com/freebsd/nsswitch but only a part of them was built in to -CURRENT (the statical part). Could anybody tell me why? This is a serious deficiency of FreeBSD which has been solved on Linux for ages. Is there any security or other reason not to implement a fully functional nsswitch feature into FreeBSD? Is there anybody who use _properly working_ nsswitch and nss_ldap on FreeBSD? Is there anybody who can do authentication via LDAP on a FreeBSD box? Best wishes, Sandor Gyori Technical University of Budapest To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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