Bug#191082: libc6: random nss lookup results

[Robin Farine <robin.farine@acn-group.ch>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.2.5-11.5
Severity: important

If /etc/nsswitch.conf contains:

passwd:         files ldap
group:          files ldap
shadow:         files ldap

and the LDAP server isn't reachable, nobody can login. If I remove
the ldap service from each of these lines then root can login on
the console.

However, if I try to login as root on the console many times with
the above configuration and the LDAP server unreachable, it finally
succeeds.

Please note that I performed these tests without having nscd running.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux halftrack 2.4.20 #1 Thu Feb 13 11:19:08 CET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH