LDAP NIS replacement

2000-03-14 Thread yramin
Hi, New to the list, but I'm looking into developing a way to authenticate and grab user information from an LDAP server compared to /etc/passwd and company, or NIS. I was poking around the library code and noticed that FreeBSD does not have NSS (name service switch) support (otherwise I wou

Re: LDAP NIS replacement

2000-03-14 Thread Oscar Bonilla
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 04:23:32PM -0800, yramin wrote: > Hi, > > New to the list, but I'm looking into developing a way to > authenticate and grab user information from an LDAP server compared > to /etc/passwd and company, or NIS. I was poking around the library > code and noticed that FreeBSD

Re: LDAP NIS replacement

2000-03-14 Thread Yann Ramin
Perfect ! Please let me know when you get NSS working in the C library, as I am very interested. I tried compiling the copy of nss_ldap from padl.com - in both GNU_NSS mode and IRS_NSS mode. Both crapped out in various places and it seemed such a big chore to try to clean them up, so I stopped.