Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 11:38:52 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Somethings still up with new NSS? Message-ID: <20030429163852.GA10454@hellblazer.celabo.org> In-Reply-To: <xzp8ytts461.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <20030428075916.GA53857@myhakas.internal> <20030428190209.A21656@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20030428075916.GA53857@myhakas.internal> <20030428080505.GA1474@chihiro.leafy.idv.tw> <20030428075916.GA53857@myhakas.internal> <20030428105521.GB2676@madman.celabo.org> <20030428111859.GA2923@madman.celabo.org> <xzp8ytts461.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 05:40:22PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > But, if you run `pwd_mkdb -u' BEFORE you rebuild the entire database > > with plain `pwd_mkdb', the database will have version 3 entries for > > all of your users, but only a version 4 entry for the single target > > user. Old binaries still function fine, but new binaries now `see' > > that the database supports the new version 4 entries. So, only the > > single user that was updated is recognized. > > Why do new binaries ignore the older version 3 entries? They only ignore them if there is a `version tag' in the database that indicates a later version. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine . NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal nectar@celabo.org . jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@freebsd.org . nectar@kth.se
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