On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Sean M. Collins <s...@coreitpro.com> wrote: > On 10/4/11 2:02 PM, Michael Bushkov wrote: >> Users/groups caching can be pretty much useful when you have large >> LDAP or NIS setup. > > Agreed, and forgive me for hammering you (I freely admit I don't have > any significant contributions to FreeBSD) but it would be far more > useful if it was cached machine-wide instead of per user, yes? >
No problem ) Technically, yes, but machine-wide cache leads to a security issue - malicious user can poison the global cache with arbitrary data. Cheers, Michael > I guess I'm just playing devil's advocate - none the less you have my > respect. > > -- > Sean M. Collins > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"