On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:57:59AM -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote: > Em Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:02:38PM +0900, Junyoung Heo escreveu: > > It seems that pwdb's action is similiar with nss(use db and shadow part)'s. > > What's different between nss and pwdb? > > Is there any advantage use libpwdb instead of glibc functions? > > AFAIK, pwdb emerged when glibc didn't have this nice nss interface Exactly correct. The other difference is that pwdb provides an interface for modifying entries in user databases, while libc doesn't. I don't believe that that's a facility libc should try to provide, either. Some nsswitch modules access read-only data sources, or sources which are writable, but which shouldn't be written to (for example, a directory you keep in sync with NIS using migration scripts). Nalin
