Re: re passwordsafe under RHEL5 (and wtf rethe forum)

[email protected] Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:58:10 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.passwordsafe.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 >  nscd is a generic caching service for access to "databases" such as
 > /etc/passwd, /etc/groups, etc.
 > My guess is that libc is trying to access it to save some time in the course
 > of a call to getpwname(), getpwuid() or something similar.

Actually nscd just intercepts various library calls like gethostbyname() etc.
So the pswafe help facility under Linux should work fine without it running.

 > In other words, it doesn't seem related to the issues you've reported, as
 > far as I can tell.

Yeah.  I think this symptom is a red herring too--the cause is probably
something very different.  (See my subsequent msg.)

steve
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