From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 9 15: 8:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from szit.bme.hu (fourier.szit.bme.hu [152.66.84.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F4F037B405 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 15:08:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gyori@szit.bme.hu) Received: (qmail 78074 invoked by uid 8452); 9 Jun 2001 22:08:37 -0000 Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 00:08:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Gyori Sandor To: Subject: nsswitch dynamically loadable modules Message-ID: <20010610000004.V77923-100000@fourier.szit.bme.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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