On 2005-06-30 21:33:54 -0400, John Peacock wrote: > Elliot F wrote: > >Another method (and a very scalable one) would be to store user data in > >DNS. > > Ooh, don't suggest that sort of thing on a DNS admin list unless you really > like having a cheese grater rubbed on all your private parts. That is a > gross violation of the design of DNS (but of course I can think of an > elegant way to do it with a tinydns instance ;-).
That's exactly what Hesiod does, though. We used to use this about 15
years ago, and I thought it was a rather neat idea, except that there
was no provision for shadow passwords at the time (but then, Ultrix
didn't have shadow password files anyway, and it wasn't on a public
nameserver, so it didn't matter in that case).
hp
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