libnss-afs v2.01 released
Adam Megacz <[email protected]> Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:31:36 +0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.file-systems.openafs.announce |
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| Organization | Myself |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
I am pleased to announce the availability of libnss-afs v2.01: http://www.megacz.com/software/libnss-afs.html This version works around a bug in recent versions of pam_unix.so. http://git.megacz.com/?p=libnss-afs.git;a=commitdiff;h=277abbf3 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