On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:31:31AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > System database and name service switch(NSS) > > glibc: Supported > > BSD libc: NSS not supported.Incompatible shadow and password support and ancient utmp. > > (Problem Solved by writing a library libshadow) > > User applications should not need to know about FreeBSD's shadow > password style, so that shouldn't really matter. 5.0 has NSS. Also, while it's obvious you're coming from a Linux background, please note that it's equally valid to consider glibc as the one with the incompatible password file format ;-). What does "ancient" mean, in technical terms? Kris
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