On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:44:52PM +0100, Max Herrgård wrote: > Den 2013-11-21 23:18:32 skrev Francois Tigeot <[email protected]>: > > - Dynamically linked binaries in the root filesystem so that we can use > > NSS/LDAP and PAM technologies like on Linux and FreeBSD. > > Could you elaborate a bit on this please? I'm trying to get a DragonFly > box authenticate against an LDAP server right now.
It's quite simple actually: - nss works by loading shared libraries (.so files) - shared libraries can only be loaded by dynamically linked programs - the binaries in / are static They logically can't load .so files and thus can't use nss features at all. -- Francois Tigeot
