Re: libnss-ldap breaks gdm and screen saver?

[Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net>]

On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Guillaume Morin wrote:

> Dans un message du 24 Feb à 17:49, Brian May écrivait :
> > No, this is a problem with NSS support, not PAM support.

> afaik, all NSS things are done automatically by the libc. You don't need
> special codes.

But you *do* need to call the libc functions (getpwnam, getpwent, etc.) for
this to work.  Any program that opens /etc/passwd directly to look for the
user entry is broken and will not work with NSS.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer