[67] in Hesiod
How do I use hesiod efficiently?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Sun Dec 22 12:43:11 1991
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 91 12:38:54 -0500
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: jh@efd.lth.se
Cc: hesiod@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Joergen Haegg's message of Sun, 22 Dec 1991 13:18:41 MET <m0kvS8h-0000rsC@baal.efd.lth.se>
We have never used Yellow Pages here, so haven't written compatibility
routines for hesiod. If anyone else has done this, I'd be interested
to hear about it. You might try asking on the sun-athena@ucsc.edu
mailing list as well.
Rather than have many library routines to fetch hesiod info instead of
looking at local config files, the philosophy here as been to modify
login to fetch all of the hesiod info about someone when they login
and add it to /etc/passwd and /etc/group. Then programs can just scan
these files the usual way. This turns out to be an aid in integrating
third party applications which will not understand hesiod.
So most of our hesiod code is ad-hoc rather than hesiodized versions
of the regular library routines.
-Mark
