[4732] in Kerberos
Re: Kerberos getpwnam() equivalent...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derrick J. Brashear)
Fri Mar 3 17:29:23 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 16:22:00 -0500
From: "Derrick J. Brashear" <db74+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Excerpts from netnews.comp.protocols.kerberos: 3-Mar-95 Re: Kerberos
getpwnam() equ.. by Steve Omand@athena.tay.d
> -> > 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.
You don't need to run a local named to use Hesiod. You *do* need to run
a local named if you want local caching, which is to what I was
referring.
-D
