HEADS UP: new NSS

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 12:36:07 -0500, "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar at freebsd.org> said:

> On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 12:23:46AM +0700, Max Khon wrote:
>> it will not work in single user mode when /usr is not mounted, right?

> That's right.

>> do you plan to migrate to shared root just like NetBSD did a few months ago?

> Not me personally, no. :-)  I would welcome it, but I'm not going to push
> it.

One possible way around this is to add an external resolver (like
Solaris's `nscd'); the static library can use a stub routine to call
the resolver if possible (i.e., the machine is running multiuser), and
then fall back to the built-in databases if this fails.  This way,
only the users who needed loadable NSS modules would pay the cost.

-GAWollman