NIS+ Support?
| From: | John Donagher | Date: | Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:39:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | NIS+ Support? | ||
| Groups: | php.dev | ||
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Hey folks..
I've noticed there doesn't appear to be any NIS+ support in PHP. Has anyone looked at the
feasability of doing something like this? There is NIS support and LDAP support, so it seems like
NIS+ is a reasonable addition. I'd be happy to work on coding it, but I just want to make sure
there isn't any technical problems with doing so that I'm overlooking..
Mainly, the issue is that I'm working on finishing up a huge billing system for the company I
work for, and we want to integrate the addition/cancellation/modification of users, who currently
are stored in an NIS+ database. So things would be vastly easier if NIS+ support was integrated
directly into PHP, so I wouldn't have to call external C or Perl programs. The only hangup I
can think of is that the user running Apache&PHP (nobody) would have to have sufficient
credentials to add and modify NIS+ users..
Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions on this issue?
Thanks
John Donagher
NETPLEX