[1489] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: proposal: db support in aname_to_localname going away
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Fri Aug 2 18:08:19 1996
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU, Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 18:06:57 EDT
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
>> Another problem: NetBSD uses db to access passwd info (if the hashed
>> file exists). A *different* db. If a program uses the krb5 db,
>> getpwnam won't work, nor anything else that accesses a native-db file.
The NetBSD people have agreed that this is a NetBSD bug. I have a
workaround, which we can ship, or provide a reference to.
>> Thus there is no good reason for kdb5_util to use ss at all. I suggest the
>> following cvs-like usage:
This sounds like a good idea, too.
>> Um. Right. Can we not get those into the db distribution in some
>> form?
Well, we don't own the db distribution, obviously. I'd be a little
wary of putting something as convoluted as what kerberos does to build
shared libraries into the db sources. I could probably be convinced
to do something bsd-like and use foo.c -> foo.so rules. This would
also be easier to get by Margo, since she listens to Keith, who, of
course, favors BSD.
Marc
