Bug#519479: libc6: NSS does not support gshadow database

[Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.9-4
Severity: important

Unlike the passwd, shadow, groups etc. databases, the glibc
NSS implementation does not include the gshadow database
(which is the shadow file for the group database as shadow
is for the passwd database).

This prevents utilities such as getent from working:

% sudo getent shadow
[...]
% sudo getent gshadow
Unknown database: gshadow

Not having one of the key password database files supported
by NSS is a significant lacking.  gshadow can subsequently
only be accessed as the file /etc/gshadow and not via any
of the NSS modules such as db or ldap.

It would be great if this could be fixed for Squeeze.


Regards,
Roger

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (550, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.3.3-5  GCC support library

libc6 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libc6 suggests:
ii  glibc-doc                     2.9-4      GNU C Library: Documentation
ii  locales                       2.9-4      GNU C Library: National Language (

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