HEADS UP: new NSS

[Jacques A. Vidrine]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 02:50:43AM +0200, Philip Paeps wrote:
> Just checking: are the new implementations (supposed to be) completely
> compatible with the old ones, or should I be expecting 'anomalies'?

They are supposed to be, except that I don't support old buggy
behaviour.
 
> It appears as though this is not completely backward-compatible with the
> previous state of affairs.  Having no nsswitch.conf and '+:::::::::' in
> passwd(5) doesn't allow one to log in, and causes uids not to be turned into
> names and vice versa.
> 
> Perhaps a default nsswitch.conf should be provided to ensure that
> people don't end up not being able to log into their machines :-)

Oops.  A default _is_ provided (compiled-in), but I set it
incorrectly.  The default was `files'.  I've restored it to `compat',
as it was previously.  Thanks for the catch!

Cheers,
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