On Sat, Aug 15, Matthew W. S. Bell wrote: > On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 14:16 +0200, Thorsten Kukuk wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 15, Matthew W. S. Bell wrote: > > > You are under the assumption that there has to be a shadow entry > > if this function is called. But this is not that case. For example, > > if you are using NIS, it is most likely that there is no entry. > > Which would mean, that the log file would get flooded with this > > message. > > From the code, I can see that the shadow database is only accessed if > the relevant information is not in the passwd database. Which means only that: It is not available in the passwd database and nothing else. > In both cases, the database accessed is controlled in an opaque manner > to this client code by the nsswitch framework. Don't know what you want to say with that. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Project Manager/Release Manager SLES SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) _______________________________________________ Pam-list mailing list Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
