[sparks-discuss] Active Directory name service module (nss_ad) [PSARC/2008/441 FastTrack timeout 07/18/2008]

[Darren J Moffat]

Baban Kenkre wrote:
>> I think we can resolve this by shipping an /etc/nsswitch.ad just like 
>> we do for nis, nisplus, ldap, dns, files today.
>>   
> 
> The team decided to leave an example nsswitch.ad out because of the 
> limited use of "ad" i.e. "ad" only resolves "passwd" and "group" and 

Just like nsswitch.dns only has an entry for dns on hosts and ipnodes.

> does not support logon of Windows users onto Solaris yet. But I see no 
> problem in delivering nsswitch.ad if that's the consensus.

Since we have an nsswitch example file for all the other nameservice 
(full or partial) we should have parity there.

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Darren J Moffat