Re: NSS Project

1999-08-27 Thread John Sconiers
I was looking for followups to this thread and have searched the archives for more information without luck. I have a few questions. Has this project furthered any and where can one get the diffs / source??? Is there a website that goes in depth about the project. JOHN Following on the

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-27 Thread Oscar Bonilla
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 01:33:03PM -0500, John Sconiers wrote: I was looking for followups to this thread and have searched the archives for more information without luck. I have a few questions. Has this project furthered any and where can one get the diffs / source??? Is there a

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-27 Thread John Sconiers
I was looking for followups to this thread and have searched the archives for more information without luck. I have a few questions. Has this project furthered any and where can one get the diffs / source??? Is there a website that goes in depth about the project. JOHN Following on the

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-27 Thread Oscar Bonilla
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 01:33:03PM -0500, John Sconiers wrote: I was looking for followups to this thread and have searched the archives for more information without luck. I have a few questions. Has this project furthered any and where can one get the diffs / source??? Is there a website

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, John Polstra wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian F. Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mind pointing me to the technical reason why (I'm sure you've explained it before) we can't use the dl* calls in any way without linking against ld-elf.so.1? I mean, have

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-05 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Mm-hmm. ld -Bshareable as opposed to ar rc. This demonstrates a superficial understanding of the process, nothing more. I just think we're not seeing eye to eye. I'd be more inclined to say that John simply understands this where you don't. Go study up, then come back and engage the poor

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: Mm-hmm. ld -Bshareable as opposed to ar rc. This demonstrates a superficial understanding of the process, nothing more. I know exactly how an ar archive is made of all the non-PIC .o files and a ranlib works. I know what happens when ld puts

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-05 Thread John Polstra
Peter Jeremy wrote: I apologize if I gave anyone the impression that you couldn't build statically linked executables with libpam. Sorry I was so prickly about it. I recall having a similar static-vs-dynamic discussion with you a couple of years ago. Yow, your memory is better than mine.

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, John Polstra wrote: My position was (and still is) that for most purposes dynamic linking is a definite advantage, but we should continue to permit static linking for applications that want it (which Sun doesn't). I generally agree, except I feel that when there are

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-05 Thread John Polstra
In article pine.bsf.4.10.9908052127030.86114-100...@janus.syracuse.net, Brian F. Feldman gr...@freebsd.org wrote: Mind pointing me to the technical reason why (I'm sure you've explained it before) we can't use the dl* calls in any way without linking against ld-elf.so.1? I mean, have them in

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, John Polstra wrote: In article pine.bsf.4.10.9908052127030.86114-100...@janus.syracuse.net, Brian F. Feldman gr...@freebsd.org wrote: Mind pointing me to the technical reason why (I'm sure you've explained it before) we can't use the dl* calls in any way without

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-05 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Mm-hmm. ld -Bshareable as opposed to ar rc. This demonstrates a superficial understanding of the process, nothing more. I just think we're not seeing eye to eye. I'd be more inclined to say that John simply understands this where you don't. Go study up, then come back and engage the poor guy

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: Mm-hmm. ld -Bshareable as opposed to ar rc. This demonstrates a superficial understanding of the process, nothing more. I know exactly how an ar archive is made of all the non-PIC .o files and a ranlib works. I know what happens when ld puts

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-04 Thread Assar Westerlund
Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We need to be able to build an application that has no dynamically loaded code for recovery purposes (/stand and /sbin) as well as for security. Isn't that the same problem as with PAM? /assar To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
Assar Westerlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We need to be able to build an application that has no dynamically loaded code for recovery purposes (/stand and /sbin) as well as for security. Isn't that the same problem as with PAM? Quite probably PAM has

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assar Westerlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We need to be able to build an application that has no dynamically loaded code for recovery purposes (/stand and /sbin) as well as

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-04 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: *Step One: I ported the NetBSD implementation of nsdispatch(3) as implemented by Luke Mewburn. See attached patch to libc and new header file. I'm also attaching the man page for /etc/nsswitch.conf. Right now it compiles, installs, and

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote: Oscar Bonilla oboni...@fisicc-ufm.edu wrote: If anyone has any comments, suggestions, etc. I would appreciate it. Overall, I like the idea of NSS. But, having worked on Solaris 2.x for some time, we need to avoid some of the blunders Sun made: The

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-04 Thread Assar Westerlund
Peter Jeremy jere...@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au writes: We need to be able to build an application that has no dynamically loaded code for recovery purposes (/stand and /sbin) as well as for security. Isn't that the same problem as with PAM? /assar To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
Assar Westerlund as...@sics.se wrote: Peter Jeremy jere...@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au writes: We need to be able to build an application that has no dynamically loaded code for recovery purposes (/stand and /sbin) as well as for security. Isn't that the same problem as with PAM? Quite probably PAM

Re: NSS Project update

1999-08-04 Thread Boris Popov
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: [skip] 2. Make the C library nsdispatch aware. The dtab[] array will be filled dynamicaly from the contents of /etc/nsswitch.conf. I'm still not sure if this has to be done whithin the C library or if nsdispatch should fill the dtab[] array

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-04 Thread John Polstra
In article 99aug5.074611est.40...@border.alcanet.com.au, Peter Jeremy jere...@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au wrote: Assar Westerlund as...@sics.se wrote: Peter Jeremy jere...@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au writes: We need to be able to build an application that has no dynamically loaded code for recovery

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
John Polstra j...@polstra.com wrote: Peter Jeremy jere...@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au wrote: Assar Westerlund as...@sics.se wrote: Peter Jeremy jere...@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au writes: We need to be able to build an application that has no dynamically loaded code for recovery purposes (/stand and

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-03 Thread Boris Popov
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: Following on the NSS (Name Service Switch): *Step One: I ported the NetBSD implementation of nsdispatch(3) as implemented by Luke Mewburn. See attached patch to libc and new header file. I'm also attaching the man page for /etc/nsswitch.conf.

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-03 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: *Step One: I ported the NetBSD implementation of nsdispatch(3) as implemented by Luke Mewburn. See attached patch to libc and new header file. I'm also attaching the man page for /etc/nsswitch.conf. Right now it compiles, installs, and

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-03 Thread Boris Popov
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: Following on the NSS (Name Service Switch): *Step One: I ported the NetBSD implementation of nsdispatch(3) as implemented by Luke Mewburn. See attached patch to libc and new header file. I'm also attaching the man page for /etc/nsswitch.conf.

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
Oscar Bonilla oboni...@fisicc-ufm.edu wrote: If anyone has any comments, suggestions, etc. I would appreciate it. Overall, I like the idea of NSS. But, having worked on Solaris 2.x for some time, we need to avoid some of the blunders Sun made: The biggest problem with Sun's NSS implementation is