dynamic /bin /sbin

Peter da Silva peter-dragonfly at taronga.com
Fri Jul 25 13:55:29 PDT 2003


Richard Coleman wrote:
Using dynamic libraries is pretty convenient for things like PAM and 
nsswitch.conf.  Otherwise, you need to create some type of API that is 
flexible enough for every type of authentication, authorization, or 
resolution method you might want to use in the future.
Indeed. That's one of the reasons I'm interested in Dragonfly: it
is built around that very mechanism.





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