From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 6 9:41:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43EA137B401 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:41:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE46543EBE for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:41:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gB6HfRAm021888; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:41:27 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id gB6HfRQT021884; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:41:27 -0800 Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:41:27 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Octavian Hornoiu Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nsswitch functionality Message-ID: <20021206094126.A20271@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <1039195860.3df0ded41aacd@mail.hacknslash.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1039195860.3df0ded41aacd@mail.hacknslash.org>; from octavian@hacknslash.org on Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 09:31:00AM -0800 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu 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 --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 09:31:00AM -0800, Octavian Hornoiu wrote: > Winbind requires nsswitch to work properly and I know that FreeBSD > does not support it currently but why is this not a top priority at > the moment? I would much rather have nsswitch working than some of > the minor features introduced in 5.0. At least, this is my humble > opinion and I might be asking too much. Is there a dedicated resource > working on nsswitch at the current moment or is the project dead? This is a volunteer project so people work on what they feel like. At this moment, I don't think anyone is working on nsswitch. Apparently, the set people who think this is a top priority, and the set of people willing and able (both in skill and time) to actually do the work don't currently intersect. You've basicly got two options. 1) Since you're in the first set, you could do what it takes to join the second set and do the work. 2) convince someone in the second set the join the first set. I'm sure there are plenty of people who would be happy to do the work under contract if you were willing to pay for it. You're current approach of telling everyone that they have screwed up priorities and should do what you want is not likely to be a successful approach. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE98OFDXY6L6fI4GtQRAoAcAJ93WGJgMy6uzmS1IBDiTXShtiTjCwCdHsG9 kVlHsc9YpWftU2CkrZAEcsU= =ysda -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message