Re: nsswitch and/or hesiod support

2005-09-09 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Damien Miller wrote: As in unauthenticated distribution of private account data via DNS? I strongly doubt it. Well, that's what NIS does (unauthenticated distribution of private account), right ? And if you use kerberos for storing passwords, it does not look like such an issue... or am I wro

Re: nsswitch and/or hesiod support

2005-09-09 Thread Damien Miller
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: And what about hesiod ? Was it ever considered to be included ? As in unauthenticated distribution of private account data via DNS? I strongly doubt it. -d

Re: nsswitch and/or hesiod support

2005-09-09 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Damien Miller wrote: Lots of us would like something like nsswitch, but none of us want an implementation that uses shared libraries to do it. It should be fairly easy to delegate getpw* and getgr* via a local unix domain socket (which works nicely for chroot apps too), but there are some subleti

Re: nsswitch and/or hesiod support

2005-09-09 Thread Damien Miller
Lukasz Sztachanski wrote: On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 10:11:51PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Hi... Some months ago, a patch to import nsswitch into OpenBSD was post on tech@ : http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-tech&m=110098242313143&w=2 I was wondering if there was any ongoing work on n

Re: nsswitch and/or hesiod support

2005-09-09 Thread Lukasz Sztachanski
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 10:11:51PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Hi... > > Some months ago, a patch to import nsswitch into OpenBSD was post on tech@ : > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-tech&m=110098242313143&w=2 > > I was wondering if there was any ongoing work on nsswitch or equiv

nsswitch and/or hesiod support

2005-09-03 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi... Some months ago, a patch to import nsswitch into OpenBSD was post on tech@ : http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-tech&m=110098242313143&w=2 I was wondering if there was any ongoing work on nsswitch or equivalent. If not, it there a way to have hesiod support on OpenBSD ? Thanks. Rega