Somethings still up with new NSS?

[Jacques A. Vidrine]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 05:40:22PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > But, if you run `pwd_mkdb -u' BEFORE you rebuild the entire database
> > with plain `pwd_mkdb', the database will have version 3 entries for
> > all of your users, but only a version 4 entry for the single target
> > user.  Old binaries still function fine, but new binaries now `see'
> > that the database supports the new version 4 entries.  So, only the
> > single user that was updated is recognized.
> 
> Why do new binaries ignore the older version 3 entries?

They only ignore them if there is a `version tag' in the database that
indicates a later version.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine   . NTT/Verio SME      . FreeBSD UNIX       . Heimdal
nectar at celabo.org . jvidrine at verio.net . nectar at freebsd.org . nectar at kth.se