Am I way off base here?

[Matthew Dillon]

    Is there something fundamentally difficult about implementing
    things like getpwnam() through an IPC mechanism + maintainng a local
    cache that I am missing?  Because I am really getting angry at the
    FreeBSD-5 folk acting so goddamn high and mighty about their NSS DLL
    requiring a dynamic root crap.

    Sorry, just venting.  But, damn it, it's annoying.  What the hell do they
    think they are accomplishing other then obfuscating the system even more
    then it already is?  I mean, we've had the concept of NIS for a long time.
    It's obvious that IPC is the only way to go for this stuff even though
    NIS never implemented it right.  What am I missing here?

						-Matt