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 nsswitch or equivalent.
If not, it there a way to have hesiod support on OpenBSD ?
I've been silently looking for any reply :> Lack of nsswitch is the
most annoying thing in OpenBSD for me. Anyway, in next few weeks i`ll
have to play with nsswitch( especially for distributing 1k accounts via
ldap); probably i`ll try to import this patch to 3_7 or 3_8.
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
subleties especially around fallback behaviour.
To my knowledge, one person (Eric Alata, search the misc@ and tech@
archives) has looked at this and has started by writing a better LDAP
client API than openldap's, but IIRC he is tied up completing his
thesis.
If you want to pick this up, consider contacting him (he is in the Cc
list) and reporting your progress to tech@
-d
