> Jarrett Lu wrote:
> > In the DMZ example, it's correct that user identity can be centrally 
> > administered in
> > an LDAP database. However, passwd files need not be shared by all zones. In
> > fact each zone can have its own copy of passwd file so that the zone 
> > admin can
> > administer users on per zone bases.
> 
> Do we document how to do that though ?  Since by default getpwnam will 
> use nscd and given that the door points to the global zone one the local 
> /etc/passwd file never gets consulted.

        Hummm, is something different here, I thought getXbyY in each labeled
        zone would follow nsswitch.conf and go to nscd (global zone only)
        only for name services.  Is nscd involved with files lookups?

Gary..

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