Very Computer

Hi,
        Im looking to develop my own (very) lightweight service for the
passwd database using nss.  Mostlikely using UDP sockets, to a remote
machine.

Can anyone recommend documentation on how to go about doing this.  Or
maybe even recommend a freeware package.

I found the glibc documentation about nss but it appeared to say that it
was internally different to Solaris.

I've had a look at:
NIS+ was too resource hungry.
Management dont like the look of LDAP.
DCE sounded good, but I only found a 12k archive with an nss replacement
and nothing more.

Thanks

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-- mark heath - Unix System Programmer/Engineer - Netspace Online Systems.  
:wq

Quote:> I've had a look at:
> NIS+ was too resource hungry.
> Management dont like the look of LDAP.

Why was that?  Sun appear to promoting LDAP as "the way forward", as do
others...

Quote:> DCE sounded good, but I only found a 12k archive with an nss replacement
> and nothing more.

--
Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator
``Damn the philosophy, just provide the functionality and let anyone
  with a competing philosophy come up with some better alternative if
  they don't like it.'' -- JKH