On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 04:03:48AM +0300, Vassilis Vatikiotis wrote: > Dominik George wrote: > > Did you follow some how-to that tells you to add +:::: or something like > > that to your passwd and shadow files? If so, NIS requests will be sent > > upon file and compat resolution. > The +::::: notation in passwd/shadow filesis used when the 'compat' > option is used in nsswitch.conf, and I haven't used any 'compat' option > in nsswitch nor the +/- compatibility notation in passwd and shadow files. > It's not needed anyway since glibc supports NIS lookups. The compat > option was used when libc5 without NYS support was used in linux, maybe > a decade ago or something like that. > I suspect it's deeper than this, maybe in the pam_unix.so source. Among > other things I've read about it is that nis support is included in > pam_unix.so and the way to configure is through nsswitch.conf. But it > seems that pam_unix doesn't honor the 'status=action' mechanism in > nsswitch.conf. pam_unix doesn't look at nsswitch.conf at all. It "honors" the file only by way of its effects on the behavior of the various glibc NSS functions (such as getpwnam()). > Anyway, I'm willing to dive into source code here. Any cvs link I could > get pam_unix.so source from? http://sourceforge.net/projects/pam -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.debian.org/ _______________________________________________ Pam-list mailing list Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
