Del was once rumoured to have said:
> Luke McKee wrote:
>
> Some older brain dead programs don't even do an NSS lookup, preferring
> to read /etc/passwd themselves, or do getpwent(). If you find one,
> shoot it.
Uh, getpwent() goes through the nss system. read nsswitch.conf(5),
under passwd. Its this fact that also allows NIS so work everywhere
automatically when its enabled.
C.
--
--==============================================--
Crossfire | This email was brought to you
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons
--==============================================--
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
