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Date:      Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:57:58 -0500
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pw_class in _pw_passwd is null if __hashpw() is not called in prior
Message-ID:  <20000928115758.E42464@spawn.nectar.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000928102400.A17446@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@emsphone.com on Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:24:01AM -0500
References:  <20000906151431.A26152@hamlet.nectar.com> <14798.4853.288090.72159A@silver.carrots.uucp.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20000924100812.A23848@spawn.nectar.com> <200009281350.WAA23538@bunko> <200009281513.LAA82640@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20000928102400.A17446@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:24:01AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> Depends on what Seigo meant.  If he meant that libc.so.4 and no
> /etc/nsswitch.conf implicitly adds a "+" to the end of /etc/passwd,
> that's definitely a bug.  

If you don't have an /etc/nsswitch.conf, then it behaves just like
libc.so.3, i.e.  only the files are consulted, unless you have a '+'
entry.

> If he meant that libc.so.4 and an nsswitch.conf of "passwd: files nis"
> doesn't require a "+", that's fine.

And that is how it works if you do have an nsswitch.conf like that.
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org


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