Re: Am I way off base here?

[Richard Coleman <Richard.Coleman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Is there something fundamentally difficult about implementing
>     things like getpwnam() through an IPC mechanism + maintainng a local
>     cache that I am missing?  Because I am really getting angry at the
>     FreeBSD-5 folk acting so goddamn high and mighty about their NSS DLL
>     requiring a dynamic root crap.
>
>     Sorry, just venting.  But, damn it, it's annoying.  What the hell do they
>     think they are accomplishing other then obfuscating the system even more
>     then it already is?  I mean, we've had the concept of NIS for a long time.
>     It's obvious that IPC is the only way to go for this stuff even though
>     NIS never implemented it right.  What am I missing here?
>
> 						-Matt

I can't think of anything that would prevent an IPC based mechanism for 
NSS/PAM from working correctly.  I'm sure it can be done.  My chief 
concern is that there is already lots of code already written for 
PAM/NSS that use the dynamic approach, since that is how it is 
implemented on Solaris, Linux, and now FreeBSD-current.  If a totally 
different approach is taken on DragonFly, it may be difficult to port 
these third party modules.

Richard Coleman
Richard.Coleman@xxxxxxxxxx