Dan Mack wrote:
>
> I think the "+" should default to NIS and only NIS. The plus is a
> legacy thingy anyway and in 99.9% of cases, it means NIS.
>
> If you want to slurp in data from some arbitrary naming service
> (eg. dbm, files, ldap, nisplus, oracle, etc), then nsswitch.conf is
> the current way to do that. You should not be able to overload what
> "+" means.
>
> I have a question. Which OS lets you use a "+" to slurp in LDAP data?
> I have not seen that yet ;-)
>
> What are the problems with getting nsswitch.conf to be used by autofs?
>
There is no API to get to it, so it means writing your own parser for
everything you want to use it.
-hpa
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