Somethings still up with new NSS?

Jacques A. Vidrine nectar at FreeBSD.org
Mon Apr 28 07:48:49 PDT 2003


On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 10:45:33AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar at freebsd.org> writes:
> 
> > So until I add logic to pwd_mkdb(8) to recognize and deal
> > appropriately with this situation, it is best to run pwd_mkdb once
> > manually after the NSS commit.
> 
> Wouldn't an easy solution be to put a comment into master.passwd
> itself?  It can serve as a warning, and it will change the CVS tag
> (thus, mergemaster will offer to rebuild the database after a proper
> merge).  

I don't think this would give very good coverage ... usually one does
not merge master.passwd.  Clever thought, nonetheless.

Anyway, I've already committed a workaround to pwd_mkdb.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine   . NTT/Verio SME      . FreeBSD UNIX       . Heimdal
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