On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 01:00:57AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Oscar Bonilla wrote:
>>
>> There are three parts to the problem:
>>
>> 1. Where do we get the databases from? I mean, where do we get passwd, group,
>> hosts, ethers, etc from.
>>
>> This should be handled by a name service switch a la solaris. Basically
>> we want to be able to tell the system for each individual database where
>> to get the stuff from. We can add entries for each database in the system.
>
> I perceive here an unfair biasing toward nss. Someone mentioned
> defining where to get the passwords from based on the login class.
> This is a very interesting option, that doesn't seem to be well
> served by nss.
>
I was actually talking about the "other" entries.
usename:uid:gid:gecos:home:shell
where does PAM fit in the schema you talk about?
would we need to make PAM login.conf aware then?
Where do we get login.conf from? from nsswitch.conf?
Regards,
-Oscar
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