Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:21:38 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: Atifa Kheel <atifa_kheel@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, debian-bsd@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: glibc vs BSD libc Message-ID: <20030120222138.GA4380@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20030120163130.GG49032@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030120130538.74079.qmail@web12606.mail.yahoo.com> <20030120163130.GG49032@dan.emsphone.com>
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--AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:31:31AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > System database and name service switch(NSS) > > glibc: Supported > > BSD libc: NSS not supported.Incompatible shadow and password support a= nd ancient utmp. > > (Problem Solved by writing a library libshadow) >=20 > User applications should not need to know about FreeBSD's shadow > password style, so that shouldn't really matter. 5.0 has NSS. Also, while it's obvious you're coming from a Linux background, please note that it's equally valid to consider glibc as the one with the incompatible password file format ;-). What does "ancient" mean, in technical terms? Kris --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+LHZyWry0BWjoQKURAk07AJ9Qw23zJiURBIHja+ZPD1qDBjSSBgCfUdqg +VYrpF5mZfJ39FsOBJeb0BQ= =u6hi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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