libnss-afs v1.05 released
Adam Megacz <[email protected]> Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:09:08 -0700
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.file-systems.openafs.announce |
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| Organization | HCOOP |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
I am pleased to announce the availability of libnss-afs v1.05: http://www.hcoop.net/~megacz/software/libnss-afs.html A Name Service Switch (NSS) plugin is a shared library used by glibc to -- among other things -- translate between usernames and numeric userids and between group names and numeric groupids. The libnss-afs library is an NSS plugin which answers these queries using the information stored in the AFS ptserver, avoiding the need to duplicate (and update) this information in /etc/passwd or LDAP. The library also synthesizes the name AfsPag-XXXX for the fake group ids that are used to represent AFS PAGs. - a