nss_ldap without nscd or cached ?

2007-05-24 Thread Mohacsi Janos
Dear All, I think there is a some architectural issues with the current implementation of nsswitch or nsdispatch(3). Let's assume you want to authenticate against an LDAP database. You will install nss_ldap from port. You configure nss_ldap.conf with binddn and its bindpw. Here comes the probl

Re: nss_ldap without nscd or cached ?

2007-05-24 Thread Michael Bushkov
Hello Mohacsi, Dear All, I think there is a some architectural issues with the current implementation of nsswitch or nsdispatch(3). Let's assume you want to authenticate against an LDAP database. You will install nss_ldap from port. You configure nss_ldap.conf with binddn and its bindpw.

Re: nss_ldap without nscd or cached ?

2007-05-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 24), Mohacsi Janos said: > I think there is a some architectural issues with the current > implementation of nsswitch or nsdispatch(3). Let's assume you want > to authenticate against an LDAP database. You will install nss_ldap > from port. You configure nss_ldap.c

Re: nss_ldap without nscd or cached ?

2007-05-24 Thread Mohacsi Janos
Hi Michael, On Thu, 24 May 2007, Michael Bushkov wrote: Hello Mohacsi, Other solution(?) would be to limit binddn access to read-only (also limiting access only few attributes in LDAP) then exposing the bindpw would not create big problem. However maintenance of LDAP ACI-s could be diffic

SoC: Distributed Audit Daemon project

2007-05-24 Thread Alexey Mikhailov
Hello! I'm the SoC student who will work on "Distributed Audit Daemon" project this summer. It was some discussion between me, my mentor Bjoern Zeeb and Robert Watson about design of this project. In this message I want to describe preliminary version of design we're likely to have. Your critici

Re: System Drops to manual mount root prompt after HDD duplication

2007-05-24 Thread David Cramblett
I was able to resolve this issue. Another sys-admin pointed out that my boot0cfg had the disk setup in CHS apposed to LBA. See below: |[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# boot0cfg -v ad0 |# flag start chs type end chs offset size |1 0x80 0: 1: 1 0xa5 1023:254:63

Re: Writing a plain text file to disk from kernel space

2007-05-24 Thread Lawrence Stewart
Comments inline... Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Lawrence Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Since you are writing kernel code, I assume you have KDB/DDB in your kernel and know how to use it. I don't know how to use them really. Th