On Jun 8, 2005, at 1:53 PM, Ben Hockenhull wrote:
There's no user information on the local system at all, so every
operation
that requires UID/GID information had to do an LDAP lookup to get
UID/GID
data. So, for example, every piece of mail delivered means an LDAP
lookup.
Ick.
You really want to leave the standard system UIDs and GIDs in place,
and use LDAP (or NIS, etc) to augment them with the additional
information about network-wide users and groups.
Is there such a thing as nscd for FreeBSD, and if so, has anyone had
experience using it? I found a lookupd utility that looks
promising, but
I'm leery of implementing it in production as it seems like fairly
untested
software.
lookupd has been around for close to fifteen years, and has been used
with large user/group databases (50,000+ users). More to the point,
the PADL stuff ought to play nicely with lookupd, since PADL came
from the NEXTSTEP and now MacOS X community where lookupd originated.
I am not sure that lookupd has been used or tested or shaken down as
much with FreeBSD, so the integration with PAM may not be as mature
as it's usage with the nss_ mechanism.
However, if you really want nscd, I'd imagine that you ought to be
able to hunt that down from Sun now that the source code for Solaris
10 is openly available...?
--
-Chuck
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