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Date:      Sat, 9 Jun 2001 15:40:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/27994: Really functioning nsswitch in FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <200106092240.f59Me3E46943@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/27994; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To: gyori@szit.bme.hu
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/27994: Really functioning nsswitch in FreeBSD 
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 15:35:23 -0700

 gyori@szit.bme.hu wrote:
 
 > >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?
 
 The basic problem is that it requires *everything* to be dynamically
 linked, even the root filesystem (/bin, /sbin etc) and splitting the
 libraries between /lib and /usr/lib.  Various people do not want this.
 
 There are other possibilities, such as using proxy nsswitch servers or
 something, but that will likely look quite different to normal nsswitch.
 
 Cheers,
 -Peter
 --
 Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
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