On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 06:18:51PM +0900, Takahiro Kambe wrote:
  | This reminds me a question.
  | 
  | In message <200306030849.h538nCH24151@srapc342.sra.co.jp>
  | 	on Tue, 3 Jun 2003 17:49:12 +0900 (JST),
  | 	Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp> wrote:
  | > Note that the followings:
  | > - the IRS library was made after nsswitch becomes very common.
  | Is there any way to add 3rd party name service with our nsswitch?

A new back-end, such as "oracle" or "nisplus"?  Sure; nsswitch was
designed with this flexibility from the start (unlike IRS).

At the moment, you need to recompile it into libc, but I have plans
to support dynamic loading of back-ends (e.g, /lib/nss/libdns.so).
FreeBSD has some support for this already, and I'm communicating with
the primary author of those enhancements.


Luke.