James Carlson wrote: > Peter C. Norton writes: > > I think he wants to be able to add a flag, i.e. -nssvc nis, -nssvc > > dns, -nssvc 'ldap', etc. to getent that will dlopen the appropriate > > nss_blah library instead of following the lookup in nsswitch.conf so > > that the lookup to a particular database can be scripted. > > Better yet, being able to specify the search order explicitly from the > command line would be extremely helpful in answering "what if?" sorts > of questions. > > It sounds like part of a decent RFE to me.
Ouch... and how would the implementation look like ? The idea was to get simple access to the data independent of the backend nameservice details, e.g. a script should not need to implement support for YP, NIS+, LDAP etc. seperately. Adding those switches would make this MUCH more painfull to implement since we could no longer use any library functions and instead have to do our own lookup code in /usr/bin/getent ... and that's AFAIK an overkill... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
