On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:25:30PM +0100, Martin Bochnig wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: > >Peter C. Norton wrote: > >>On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 02:59:55AM +0100, Martin Bochnig wrote: > >>>So how would you be able to bypass any nameservice defined in > >>>nsswitch.conf, getting those "user_attr" attributes in a > >>>"nameservice-independent way"? > >>>I mean, either you get it locally (files), or you may get it via one of > >>>the nameservices (its commands). > >>>What do you mean? > >>> > >>>Do you intend to intrude somewhere ;-) > >>> > >>How does nisinit get names from dns even if your system is set to > >>resolve via NIS+? > >> > >>-Peter > > Maybe you mean, Roland would want to clone the methods in which > /usr/sbin/nisinit accesses those data? > But we are talking about C-functions then, not a pure shell script. > > Anyways ...
I think he wants to be able to add a flag, i.e. -nssvc nis, -nssvc dns, -nssvc 'ldap', etc. to getent that will dlopen the appropriate nss_blah library instead of following the lookup in nsswitch.conf so that the lookup to a particular database can be scripted. -Peter -- The 5 year plan: In five years we'll make up another plan. Or just re-use this one. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
