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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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slave-mike wrote:
> why does /bin/sh need NSS support?

To translate UIDs and GIDs into strings using getpwnam() and
getgrnam() when the strings are stored in a directory service
of some kind.

-- Terry