On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:46:12 -0700 Adam Megacz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Modern UNIX applications (ie anything debian is willing to include) > never read directly from /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow. Instead, they > use a set of api functions in glibc. In turn, glibc provides a way to > swap in new modules, (libnss-$FOO.so) to provide modular access to the > information normally contained in /etc/passwd. This is the same > mechanism used by NIS. > > I would like to install libnss-ptdb, which eliminates the headache of > manually synchronizing /etc/passwd and the AFS PTS server. In > particular, it avoids the risk of mismatched numeric userids. > > http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2007-March/025659.html > > I've been running this on my own servers for a week, and it's great > stuff. You can have an (almost) empty /etc/passwd, yet chown/chgrp > still work properly and you see AFS usernames when you do "ls -l". I had an idea to make the adduser script so that it picks the same UIDs. But if nss_ptdb isn't too much of an overhead (that is - if nscd daemon can cache its results?), then it's worth installing anyway. -doc _______________________________________________ HCoop-SysAdmin mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-sysadmin
