NSS and PAM (was Re: NSS and PAM, dynamic vs. static)

[Mark Murray]

Terry Lambert writes:
> slave-mike wrote:
>
> > why does /bin/sh need NSS support?
>
> To translate UIDs and GIDs into strings using getpwnam() and
> getgrnam() when the strings are stored in a directory service of some
> kind.

On a related note, can I _PLEASE_ have your patches to make dlopen() and
friends work in the static case?

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