DragonFly 3.4 release planning

Chris Turner c.turner at 199technologies.com
Sat Mar 30 13:12:20 PDT 2013


On 03/30/13 14:53, Francois Tigeot wrote:

> Only beeing able to use local accounts is fine for stand-alone servers but
> once one needs to manage hundreds of user accounts, the lack of things like
> nsswitch and kerberos support becomes an issue.

Hmm.. totally agreed r.e. directory auth being a 'good thing' -
however - I recently was able to do a NIS compatibility test using DF+ssh
(though this is not /sbin/login, etc) and we do have nsswitch and pam, correct?

I'm not clear why 'using nsswitch implies dynamic linking'

Again - I'm not out to cause controversy, but seek understanding.

Cheers,

- Chris






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