Date: 9 Jun 2001 20:12:18 -0000 From: gyori@szit.bme.hu To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/27994: Really functioning nsswitch in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010609201218.77134.qmail@szit.bme.hu>
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>Number: 27994 >Category: bin >Synopsis: FreeBSD should have really functioning nsswitch >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Jun 09 13:20:02 PDT 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Gyori Sandor >Release: FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE i386 >Organization: Technical University of Budapest >Environment: FreeBSD 4.x or -CURRENT >Description: 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. Dynamical 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). 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 on FreeBSD? >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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