[5722] in Kerberos
Re: Anyone using kerberos and hesiod?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phi H Truong)
Thu Aug 17 14:11:15 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 17 Aug 1995 16:32:55 GMT
From: orion@iastate.edu (Phi H Truong)
Reply-To: orion@iastate.edu (Phi H Truong)
In article <40r0gb$muc@panix4.panix.com>, Eric <epv@panix.com> wrote:
>I am trying to set things up so that password file info is distributed
>by hesiod and authentication is done by kerberos. Unfortunately, hesiod
>doesn't appear to come with replacements for various things like
>getpwent, and i can see that this would seem to be a difficult thing,
>possibly involving a zone transfer. However, without it hesiod won't
>be able to fully replace /etc/passwd. Can anyone point me in the right
>direction?
>
hesiod doesn't really replace /etc/passwd. The login facilities get the
infomation from hesiod, stuff it in /etc/passwd, and remove it when logout.
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