On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:33:17AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:46:26AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > Michael Bushkov wrote: > > [...] > > > > so, I've been wonderring.. what's all the fuss about nsswitch? > > what does it get us? > > It gives us the ability use modules to provide arbitrary backends for a > variety of interfaces to system databases. For instance getpw*(), > gethost*(), etc.
Or put it another way - it supplies the missing half to PAM. Whilst PAM can check your password using arbitary backend modules, it can't return your $HOME directory or the uid/gid to use. Regards, Brian. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
