[Patch] Log message if getspnam() fails

Thorsten Kukuk kukuk at suse.de
Sat Aug 15 17:08:51 UTC 2009


On Sat, Aug 15, Matthew W. S. Bell wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 16:23 +0200, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 15, Matthew W. S. Bell wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 14:16 +0200, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> > > In both cases, the database accessed is controlled in an opaque manner
> > > to this client code by the nsswitch framework.
> 
> Perhaps you should read the man page for nsswitch.conf, which specific
> regard to how various system databases are configured to use information
> from nis.

I know how that code works, especially in regard to NIS, I'm the
author of the glibc NIS code, like for most NIS code on Linux.

  Thorsten

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