On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 04:05:47PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Unix has lots of fixed databases. /etc/passwd, /etc/aliases, etc. etc. > What we need to do is define a list of standard interfaces (getpw*(), > etc.) so we can have multiple implementations of the database. Did this work with /etc/passwd? No. Try to modify the format of /etc/passwd. BTW: That interface is very limited. I tried to write a few admin tools using CGIs. I ended up modifying /etc/passwd and stuff directly :(( > The kind of database I proposed is *very* similar to how Unices > currently handle database through /etc/nsswitch.conf. Right. But nsswitch.conf is performance critical. You can't use a script to look up a user id because it's just to slow. The configuration database is not performance critical. We can easily use a script to obtain the information we need. > Wichert. cu Torsten
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