Hi Bill,
On 9/13/07, Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> wrote:
William Jon McCann (mccann(a)jhu.edu) said:
> 1. Query / store user photos (avatars)
> 2. Query user account status in an implementation/backend independent
> way (locked, expired etc)
> 3. Query the user's real world name etc (ie. not just gecos)
By this, you mean more than just the name in gecos?
Ideally, yes.
> Darwin seems (at least from these docs) to use lookupd for some
of this.
>
> Anyone have any experience with lookupd specifically? Or pointers to
> different solutions?
First, is there even any standard for storing any of this extended account
information?
There are various I guess. For example, for an LDAP agent:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2798#section-2.6
This would be a reasonable standard to use and most likely a superset
of any existing functionality.
Jon