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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: erik quanstrom <quanstro@speakeasy.net>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] authentication by LDAP?
Date: Mon,  2 Jan 2006 21:34:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0601021834i45b280a3jc73fe1c00a901728@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060103021355.6E49B1E4139@dexter-peak.quanstro.net>

> if one wrote an ldap fileserver that served up ndb-stype tuples in a standard
> format, all the ndb library would need is a hook to talk to this fileserver instead
> of parsing an ndb file. you could do the same with dns and other protocols.

yes.  and steve was saying that the hook could be
you mount the file server somewhere and then use
the name of its ndb file in /lib/ndb/local.  ndb can just
access a file like it always has been, never caring
what kind of file server provides the file.

russ


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-03  2:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-29 22:32 Paweł Lasek
2006-01-02 12:35 ` Steve Simon
2006-01-03  1:12   ` erik quanstrom
2006-01-03  1:15     ` Russ Cox
2006-01-03  2:13       ` erik quanstrom
2006-01-03  2:34         ` Russ Cox [this message]
2006-01-03  2:53           ` erik quanstrom
2006-01-03 14:20   ` Paweł Lasek
2006-01-03 17:20     ` Dan Cross
2006-01-04 22:13       ` Paweł Lasek
2006-01-07  3:13     ` erik quanstrom

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