project Database

You can store project data in a local file, in a Network Information Service (NIS) project map, or in a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory service. The /etc/project database or name service is used at login and by all requests for account management by the pluggable authentication module (PAM) to bind a user to a default project.

Updates to entries in the project database, whether to the /etc/project file or to a representation of the database in a network name service, are not applied to currently active projects. The updates are applied to new tasks that join the project when login(1) or newtask(1) is used.