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Re: Use reserved port only when required for NIS look-ups


On 08/13/2012 01:30 PM, Honza Horak wrote:
How did they handle the client side configuration for hpux11?  Did we
ever get information from HP about that?

I haven't found any info by myself, but asked Paul in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689424.

A colleague of mine suggested another approach:


On 08/13/2012 01:57 PM, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> Also I think that the real reason why the privileged port is used
> for all lookups in the current glibc is that the information which
> database is secured and which not is not available from the server
> and making it necessity to configure this information explicitly on
> all clients was considered as user unfriendly. Would it be possible
> to make the code do some heuristics and fallbacks? For example for
> the shadow and gshadow db default with privileged port and for the
> rest default as non-privileged and if the server returns failure try
> to use the privileged port?

I think that would be possible if we accepted slightly worse performance because of the second request, but generally I like that idea.

Regards,
Honza


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