[68] in Hesiod
Re: How do I use hesiod efficiently?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Wohletz)
Sun Dec 22 15:37:51 1991
To: Joergen Haegg <jh@efd.lth.se>
Cc: hesiod@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Dec 91 13:18:41 +0700."
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 91 12:27:04 -0800
From: Greg Wohletz <greg@duke.cs.unlv.edu>
>Anyway, are there more libraryfunctions available?
>If I would like to use hesiod instead of yp, then I must
>write a number of getpw and getgr functions myself.
>Only getpwnam is defined in the distribution.
>
>And how do people normally use hesiod?
>Is it common to replace all yp-maps?
>(I really would love to do that, our system has grown to much now :-)
What we have done is where possible we have replaced the libc routines with
our own routines for getpwent, etc. Where that isn't possible we have a
program that runs each night that transfers the contents of the hesiod map
into the appropriate place (i.e. /etc/passwd).
--Greg
