> Is there some reason you can't update the master map and send a HUP
> signal to the daemon?

As I said previously, because this is quite hard.  The maps need to be 
changed by the login process.  We currently do this in the PAM 
configuration.  Given that we can have multiple log in at the same time 
this means we need to do a lot of careful locking.

Ideally we would do something like include all the files from a 
configuration directory and have a HUP get it to re-read all these 
configuration snippets.  This would be a relatively involved change 
however.

Please do remember where we came in though - we have our needs, which is 
our problem.  You have a bug/DOS which we identified whilst looking for a 
reason that something had broken between OpenSUSE 10.2 and OpenSUSE 10.3.
Clearly we are going to hope that when you fix your bug we can backport 
the solution and solve our problem.  If we can't we can't, and we will 
work around whatever issues we have left.

> Ian

Julian
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Julian King
Computer Officer, University of Cambridge, Unix Support

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