I haven't looked at the technical details yet, but if a change is made that doesn't break anything, of course we're ok with it. As time allows, maybe we'll beat you to the fix (I doubt it though). ;-)

Jeremy

At 02:52 PM 1/31/2003 -0500, Jeff Squyres wrote:
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Benoit des Ligneris wrote:

> Each time /etc/passwd is used in OSCAR, we should use "getent passwd"
> that "gathers entries from the specified administrative database using
> the specified search keys.  Where database is one of passwd, group,
> hosts, services, protocols, or networks." (from the man page).
>
> The getent command will allow OSCAR to support any kind of
> authentification (LDAP, NIS, NIS+, file, ...) if we use getent instead
> of reading the /etc/(passwd|group) file.

Sounds like a good idea.

Note that we're not *yet* in code freeze -- we will be at midnight.

If:

- this is a relatively minor thing to change
- it's the Right Thing to do
- it puts us in a better position for the future
- the authors don't mind (NCSA)

...then I'd say go ahead and make the change today.

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