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Re: Kerberos getpwnam() equivalent...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derrick J. Brashear)
Thu Mar 2 11:35:16 1995

To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu,  2 Mar 1995 10:01:04 -0500
From: "Derrick J. Brashear" <db74+@andrew.cmu.edu>

Excerpts from netnews.comp.protocols.kerberos: 1-Mar-95 Re: Kerberos
getpwnam() equ.. by Daniel G. Pouzzner@prez. 
> What you "really" want is a Hesiod database that contains all your
> users. This is what Hesiod is designed for, and since named caches
> queries, many obvious performance bottlenecks can be avoided.
Assuming you run a named on all of your machines....

-D


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