Bug 27994
| Summary: | FreeBSD should have really functioning nsswitch | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | gyori <gyori> |
| Component: | bin | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | 4.1.1-STABLE | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
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Description
gyori
2001-06-09 21:20:02 UTC
State Changed From-To: open->closed This is not the right forum for this discussion. The problems associated are more complicated than applying a few patches. gyori@szit.bme.hu wrote: > >Description: > > FreeBSD 4.x has no support to nsswitch, and even the -CURRENT > supports only very few, predefined methods such as files, nis, nisplus for > user authentication in nsswitch.conf. Dynamical modules can't be used, for > example nss_ldap for authentication via LDAP. There are patches to solve > this problem at http://www.nectar.com/freebsd/nsswitch, but only a part of > them was built in to -CURRENT (the statical part). Why?? This is a serious > deficiency of FreeBSD which has been solved on Linux for ages. Is there any > security or other reason not to implement a fully functional nsswitch > feature on FreeBSD? The basic problem is that it requires *everything* to be dynamically linked, even the root filesystem (/bin, /sbin etc) and splitting the libraries between /lib and /usr/lib. Various people do not want this. There are other possibilities, such as using proxy nsswitch servers or something, but that will likely look quite different to normal nsswitch. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 |
