Dan Mack wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 10:54:20AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > > 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 you are telling me that all the current use of nsswitch.conf by
> getpw* and others is all being done ad-hoc?
>
No, they're done deep inside the C library. There doesn't seem to be
any way to use the C library approach to add new "databases", although
you can add new "services" (such as NIS, NIS+, LDAP...) (Am I the only
one who think this terminology is completely backwards?)
-hpa
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