>Oh, hm, but I can - punt on having a passwd file in the local zones at all, 
>and instead handle passwd/shadow lookups via a door call to the global 
>zone.  This could be handled by an NSS backend used in place of the usual 
>files backend, and could use either a dedicated server that looks only in 
>/etc/passwd, or just call the global zone nscd.
>
>-- Jeff

Unless nscd-per-zone is configured via txzonemgr,
there is one nscd running in the global zone and the
labeled zones use a door to call to it.

>From "man nscd" on s10u6:

     The shadow file is  specifically  not  cached.
     getspnam(3C) calls remain uncached as a result.

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