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