[TUHS] Directory services in early Unix networks?
Arthur Krewat
krewat at kilonet.net
Thu Nov 8 04:27:51 AEST 2018
On 11/7/2018 10:52 AM, ron minnich wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 3:38 AM<arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure what you're asking. When DNS came along, it became
>> a matter of editing /etc/nsswitch.conf to include dns as one of the
>> options along with files and yp/nis.
> This does not align with my memory at all. I was at udel until 1988
> and we started dealing with dns ca. 1986, and the shared library stuff
> I dealt with in sunos came later.
I first saw nsswitch.conf on Solaris. And lo-and-behold:
"Sun Microsystems <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems> first
developed NSS for their Solaris
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_%28operating_system%29> operating
system, but subsequently programmers ported it to many other operating
systems including FreeBSD <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD>,
NetBSD <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBSD>, Linux
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux>, HP-UX
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX>, IRIX
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX> and AIX
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIX_operating_system>."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_Service_Switch
How true that is, I'd love to know.
art k.
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