Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unix has lots of fixed databases. /etc/passwd, /etc/aliases, etc. etc. > What we need to do is define a list of standard interfaces (getpw*(), > etc.) so we can have multiple implementations of the database. > > The kind of database I proposed is *very* similar to how Unices > currently handle database through /etc/nsswitch.conf.
This sounds very similar to what the COAS database is supposed to do. Has anybody been able to run a recent COAS version under Debian? I was able to compile 0.13, but it segfaults at me right after starting it. M. S. ------------ Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED]