[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: porting PAM



Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> Lack of nsswitch, or really a generic wrapper for the get...(3)
> routines (getpwent(), getprotoby...(), etc), means that we have NIS
> for name services rather than being able to extend them (LDAP scales
> a bit better than NIS).

Why not write a NIS -> LDAP proxy?

That would take the complexity out of libc and, by implication,
privileged code.

-d