Assaf Gordon wrote: > I have verified (with strace,ltrace) that the new cvs binary running > in 'pserver' mode as user 'nobody' does call "getpwnam(3)" on user > 'nobody' which triggers an database query due to libnss-mysql.
I would certainly expect that getpwnam(3) would look things up. I don't know why it wouldn't stop at /etc/password when it is found there however. I don't know why pserver needs to lookup 'nobody'. > I wonder if there's a way to tell libnss-mysql to skip the query for > local users if they are in /etc/passwd ? It seems that it should. It seems to me that it is a bug that it does not. Because it does return the correct answer. Therefore it must be ignoring the database lookup since there is no user nobody listed there. > Or should we look into modifying the cvs binary (perhaps there's a > simply runtime option). > > I'll look into it. I don't know why pserver needs to know the information. If it does look it up I don't know why libnss-mysql is called because the getpwnam() by the /etc/nsswitch.conf file config stop once it is found in /etc/passwd. passwd: compat mysql Bob
