On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:46:26AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > Michael Bushkov wrote: > [...] > > so, I've been wonderring.. what's all the fuss about nsswitch? > what does it get us?
It gives us the ability use modules to provide arbitrary backends for a variety of interfaces to system databases. For instance getpw*(), gethost*(), etc. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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