H. Peter Anvin writes:
> 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.
So how about we design an API, get someone to code it up, and have it
included with glibc (and include it with automount so we can still
compile on libc5 systems)?
Regards,
Richard....
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