nss_ldap without nscd or cached ?

2007-05-24 Thread Mohacsi Janos
Dear All, I think there is a some architectural issues with the current implementation of nsswitch or nsdispatch(3). Let's assume you want to authenticate against an LDAP database. You will install nss_ldap from port. You configure nss_ldap.conf with binddn and its bindpw. Here comes the

Re: nss_ldap without nscd or cached ?

2007-05-24 Thread Michael Bushkov
Hello Mohacsi, Dear All, I think there is a some architectural issues with the current implementation of nsswitch or nsdispatch(3). Let's assume you want to authenticate against an LDAP database. You will install nss_ldap from port. You configure nss_ldap.conf with binddn and its bindpw.

Re: nss_ldap without nscd or cached ?

2007-05-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 24), Mohacsi Janos said: I think there is a some architectural issues with the current implementation of nsswitch or nsdispatch(3). Let's assume you want to authenticate against an LDAP database. You will install nss_ldap from port. You configure nss_ldap.conf

Re: nss_ldap without nscd or cached ?

2007-05-24 Thread Mohacsi Janos
Hi Michael, On Thu, 24 May 2007, Michael Bushkov wrote: Hello Mohacsi, Other solution(?) would be to limit binddn access to read-only (also limiting access only few attributes in LDAP) then exposing the bindpw would not create big problem. However maintenance of LDAP ACI-s could be

SoC: Distributed Audit Daemon project

2007-05-24 Thread Alexey Mikhailov
Hello! I'm the SoC student who will work on Distributed Audit Daemon project this summer. It was some discussion between me, my mentor Bjoern Zeeb bz@ and Robert Watson rwatson@ about design of this project. In this message I want to describe preliminary version of design we're likely to have.

Re: System Drops to manual mount root prompt after HDD duplication

2007-05-24 Thread David Cramblett
I was able to resolve this issue. Another sys-admin pointed out that my boot0cfg had the disk setup in CHS apposed to LBA. See below: |[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# boot0cfg -v ad0 |# flag start chs type end chs offset size |1 0x80 0: 1: 1 0xa5 1023:254:63

Re: Writing a plain text file to disk from kernel space

2007-05-24 Thread Lawrence Stewart
Comments inline... Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Lawrence Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since you are writing kernel code, I assume you have KDB/DDB in your kernel and know how to use it. I don't know how to use them really. Thus