Date: 02 Feb 2002 16:15:57 -0500 From: "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> Cc: coolvibe@hackerheaven.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG, flynn@energyhq.homeip.net, nik@FreeBSD.ORG, pdfardy@mac.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, tlambert2@mindspring.com Subject: Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task Message-ID: <1012684586.7076.19.camel@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <E16X6Ai-0006RC-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk> References: <E16X6Ai-0006RC-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 14:50, Pete French wrote: > > AFAIK, Netinfo on Mac OS X is implemented deep. That is, it overrules > > standard libc behaviour (like the resolver, fstab and other things), Yes > > it's userspace jim, but not as we know it :) > > This was certainly true on NeXT's - you needed special versions of most > programs (e.g. sendmail, bind, login etc...) that were netinfo aware too. > If its going to be done it needs doing very thoroughly and carefully as > it replaces more of the /etc files with netinfo equivalents. On the other > doesnt YP do somethign similar ? (I've never had to use YP, thought I have > been on the receiving end of some of the consequences). And I, somehow, had failed to notice that there's no NSS on FreeBSD. *smacks self on head* Not quite so simple after all, I guess.... -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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