2008/2/8, Eduardo Alvarenga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> 2008/2/8, Karl Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > 2008/2/8, Eduardo Alvarenga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > >
> > > A long time ago a asked the developers to implement nsswitch
> > > compatibility on OpenBSD, for sake of having user automatic
> > > syncronization on AD. The answer was not positive.
> > >
> > > There is also a patch that implements this hanging around. Got to ask
> > > Google :-)
> > >
> > > Maybe it's time for OpenBSD to become more competitive and introduce
> > > industry standards on its userland.
> > >
> > >
> > > Little OT but anyway, what do you exactly mean with "industry
> standards"?
> > As far as i can see PAM is making its way through on more and more
> different
> > UNIX systems. If PAM is "industry standard" one should stay as far away
> from
> > standards as possible.
>
> nsswitch - System Databases and Name Service Switch
> PAM - Pluggable Authentication Modules
>
> Forgive me if I misunderstood your reply, but PAM has NOTHING to do
> with nsswitch.
>
> When I say "industry standards" I mean the methods to obtain something
> and not a specific way to do it.
>
> OpenBSD products like SSH, NTPD, BGPD, OSPFD, etc follow industry
> standards.
>
> Maybe it's time to interconnect user databases with other systems, and
> one possible way is to implement nsswitch-like compatibility.
>
> --
> Eduardo Alvarenga
>
> Those standards i fully agree with. I got a bit a float there and thought
you meant it in a broader sense as it's going almost everywhere these days
where they use pam to glue every one and everything together. But this
really is off topic from that AD where we started. :)
