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

[Terry Lambert]

Mark Murray wrote:
> 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?

Yes, of course.

I have been really buried at work, as should be obvious by my
intermittent participation on these lists.

The code requires updating, since it was done against -current
as of November 2002, when I made the original posts, and there
has been a linker and two compiler upgrades in the meantime that
impact it.

It's going to take me a while to make the necessary updates; I'll
forego the code cleanups that need to be done in order to just get
the code out as soon as possible.  Nevertheless, don't expect to
see it until about mid-January.

Rest assured that I haven't forgotten anyones requests in this
regard.

-- Terry