Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:44:18 +0100 From: Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk> To: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu> Cc: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD, and userfs too. Message-ID: <19990719204417.A5796@palmerharvey.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199907191629.MAA08438@cs.rpi.edu>; from David E. Cross on Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 12:29:48PM -0400 References: <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu> <199907191629.MAA08438@cs.rpi.edu>
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On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 12:29:48PM -0400, David E. Cross wrote: > I thought now would be a good time to chime in on some of my wild schemes... > > The reason I am interested in 'userfs' is to enable me to write a version > of 'nsd'. Those of you familiar with Irix will recognize it. For others, > what it does is to present the name-space on a machine as filespace. > The advantages of this is that we can greatly simplify out libc to use the > file/namespace that nsd provides. For example 'getpwent()' now becomes > file accesses to /ns/.local/passwd/NAME. Another advantage that this > abstraction provides is that it allows transparent alterations of the > databases in use, even to the extent of NOT having to restart each client > that may be using a specific database. Lovely. Sounds like a much better way to do the Solaris/Linux (and NetBSD?) /etc/nsswitch.conf stuff. On Solaris at least, this is implemented using masses of weird shared objects... -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator In Mountain View did Larry Wall Sedately launch a quiet plea: That DOS, the ancient system, shall On boxes pleasureless to all Run Perl though lack they C. -- ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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