Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 16:31:15 +0200 From: Robert Frank <frank@ifi.unibas.ch> Subject: Re: password API needed To: samba-technical@samba.anu.edu.au
<nofill> > > NIS+ support would be an EXTREMELY valuable feature. We use Samba
> > and NIS+, but lack password sync features. We were planning
> > on writing code to do the password sync things ourselves, once
> > Samba can function as a PDC. But if this api could support
> > NIS+, then a lot of work would be saved!!!
>
> tell me how to do it: send me some example code: anything. i don't have
> access to NIS+. write me some stub routines: whatever, i don't care. or,
> i can help you out in explaining what the basics needed are, and once
> those are done i can take it from there.
>
> i'm good with cut-and-paste (actually vi and sed) once some work has
> started, as i am sure that jean-francois and jeremy will bear witness to.
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Well, the latest sendmail contains several database access methods (nis,
nis+, NetInfo, ...). Perhaps something we could use?
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-Robert
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