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Pete French wrote:
> Is this NSS as in the Mozilla crypt stuff ? If so then what does it
> have to do with netinfo - or is OSX netinfo different to normal
> netinfo ? [did they break yet another thing ? :-(]

NSS = Name Service Switch

GNU LIBC has a nice introductory document:

http://www.gnu.org/manual/glibc-2.2.3/html_chapter/libc_28.html

-- Terry

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