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- From: aej@manyjars.WPI.EDU (Allan E Johannesen)
- Subject: Re: BIND/hesiod for SunOS?
- In-Reply-To: ccbjs@levels.unisa.edu.au's message of 22 Jul 92 11:43:19 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 14:33:45 GMT
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- >>>>> On 22 Jul 92 11:43:19 GMT, ccbjs@levels.unisa.edu.au said:
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- ccbjs> (In case it doesn't show, I probably don't understand the
- ccbjs> implications of what I am asking for. eg Am I going to have to
- ccbjs> replace Sun's passwd(1)?)
-
- Yup. Actually, you're going to have to replace everything. e.g. When
- 'ls -l' shows a username, it's looked the UID of the owner of the file
- up by getpwuid(). i.e. all the basic 'look up something for me in the
- passwd file' routines have to be replaced, and then everything that
- calls it has to be relinked (which means you need the .o files or the
- .c files from which the tools came, too). That's a heck of a list of
- programs.
-
- passwd(1) is another problem, too. Most of the above (chown, chgrp,
- ls, ps, heck, even awk, lpr, lpq, on and on and on) could work if
- simply relinked, but passwd needs intimate understanding of how to
- communicate with hesupd as well.
-
- DEC would be _REAL SMART_ to market a Sun suite of binary code to fit
- into their realm, since the DEC bind/hesupd stuff is pretty cute.
-