[4730] in Kerberos
Re: Kerberos getpwnam() equivalent...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Omand)
Fri Mar 3 12:01:09 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Mar 95 10:01:04 EST."
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Date: Fri, 03 Mar 95 11:28:38 EST
From: Steve Omand <omand@athena.tay.dec.com>
-> 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....
Actually you don't need to run named on all machines; just have
/etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hesiod.conf set up appropriately on all machines.
/sao
