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 -- For PGP Public Key: finger oboni...@fisicc-ufm.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
