> On Fri, 1 Sep 1995, J.T. Conklin wrote:
> > > These last 3 days I've been working on a generic nsswitch implementation.
> > > The code uses /var/run/nsswitch.db, which is built by ns_mkdb from
> > > /etc/nsswitch.conf.
> > 
> > Yow!  Sounds exciting.  Quite honestly, this is what I had hoped for when 
> > this discussion (nsswitch vs. +) broke out last month.
> > 
> > The nsswitch feature set you've selected sounds great.  Have you done
> > any work with the libc internals so that it's easy to drop in another
> > database access method (like Hesiod)?  That would make it both a ease
> > of use and a technical win over the current scheme.
> > 
> > 	--jtc

> I somehow missed the nsswitch vs + discussion last month.  With the
> nsswitch is it possible to have a configuration file which specifies for
> password entry to first try localfiles, then if that fails try bind, then
> if that fails try YP?  Or are you only able to specify one method per
> kind of thing to lookup?

You can do what you want. Here is an example.
	passwd:	file dns nis

BTW, the code is about to be made "alpha release" for others to
examine and critique.

-- 
Luke Mewburn <luke.mewburn@itg.telstra.com.au>

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