Bug 17270

Summary:	FreeBSD should support nsswitch.conf, or it's ilk
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	mjacob <mjacob>
Component:	misc	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	4.0-CURRENT
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description mjacob 2000-03-08 20:10:01 UTC

FreeBSD should support nsswitch so that order and selection and search
of various admin files like hosts or passwd can be selected for which
is first: files, NIS or DNS. 

The NetBSD implementation is pretty good.

Comment 1 dd freebsd_committer

2001-06-01 04:13:47 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

nsswitch support exists in -current.