Subject: Re: /etc/default To: J.T. Conklin <> From: Theo de
Raadt <> List: current-users Date: 07/25/1995 16:49:21 > I
disagree.  There are lots more databases that need to be
configured > than just hosts... > I believe that a
nsswitch.conf-like mechanism where the adminstrator > of
database services for passwd, group, hosts, networks, protocols,
> rpc, ethers, etc. would be a good thing.  and many of those
databases already have methods to say how/when they should
lookup.  basically, nsswitch.conf is wrong for (at least)
passwd, group, and ethers because those files quite specifically
in them say WHEN YP should be pulled in. YP should be pulled in
with you hit the +. it is a lie to specify in nsswitch.conf that
YP should be looked up first.  so what needs the nsswitch.conf?
perhaps the other databases you mention. but it isn't hard to
make the other databases also understand a + in them.