Re: password API needed

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (lkcl@switchboard.net)
Mon, 18 May 1998 19:21:49 +0000 (GMT)

Date:	Mon, 18 May 1998 19:21:49 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@switchboard.net>
To:	Jeremy Allison <jallison@whistle.com>
Subject: Re: password API needed
In-Reply-To: <35607BFE.1CFBAE39@whistle.com>

hm.

and if a function pointer is NULL, then a default / conversion routine
could be called instead.

hey, cool!

On Tue, 19 May 1998, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> Luke,
>
> Just letting you know that the changes you have
> made to add LDAP & NIS need to be modularized to go through
> a function pointer table. All these #ifdef LDAP etc. stuff
> makes it difficult to read the code, check out how the
> different shared memory systems are selected in locking.c
> using the share_ops structure - we need the same for the
> different password databases.
>
> Jeremy.
>
>
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