centralized auth and nsswitch.conf

Peter da Silva peter-dragonfly at taronga.com
Thu Jul 24 10:02:24 PDT 2003


Richard Coleman wrote:
One simple way to achieve this is to support nsswitch.conf and have LDAP 
support as one of the available switches.
For compatibility, I guess.

The native name server would be accessed through messages and hide
as much of this complexity as possible from the application.





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