I was wondering what the potential for providing a NSS and PAM implementation which used the built in Windows account base by default would be.
Basically it would remove manual generation of /etc/passwd and /etc/group. Apps which queryed for these values would just get the right things made up on the fly. In my case, this means domain users. I'd imagine you would map local users to 'username' and domain users to 'DOM\username' or some such, which is basically what Winbind ends up doing on Linux. Authentication using PAM would simply remove a lot of issues. -- Jerome Haltom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Institution Solutions LLC -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/