HEADS UP: new NSS

[Jacques A. Vidrine]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 08:35:14AM -0700, John Polstra wrote:
> You might want to look at how libpam handles this situation.  In the
> static case, all of the known modules are linked into it statically.
> Then they are located and registered at runtime by means of a linker
> set.

Something similar is supported.  You edit
src/lib/libc/net/nss_backends.h to add your module.  You don't likely
want to do this with large things like nss_ldap :-) but I plan to
bring nss_winbind into the base system in that fashion (nss_winbind is
fairly small stub).

Cheers,
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