From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 20 14:21:41 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E12AC37B405 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:21:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-106-179.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.106.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3692A43EB2 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:21:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2C6766B60; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:21:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A2A401636; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:21:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:21:38 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Dan Nelson Cc: Atifa Kheel , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, debian-bsd@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: glibc vs BSD libc Message-ID: <20030120222138.GA4380@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030120130538.74079.qmail@web12606.mail.yahoo.com> <20030120163130.GG49032@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AhhlLboLdkugWU4S" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030120163130.GG49032@dan.emsphone.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:31:31AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > System database and name service switch(NSS) > > glibc: Supported > > BSD libc: NSS not supported.Incompatible shadow and password support a= nd ancient utmp. > > (Problem Solved by writing a library libshadow) >=20 > User applications should not need to know about FreeBSD's shadow > password style, so that shouldn't really matter. 5.0 has NSS. Also, while it's obvious you're coming from a Linux background, please note that it's equally valid to consider glibc as the one with the incompatible password file format ;-). What does "ancient" mean, in technical terms? Kris --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+LHZyWry0BWjoQKURAk07AJ9Qw23zJiURBIHja+ZPD1qDBjSSBgCfUdqg +VYrpF5mZfJ39FsOBJeb0BQ= =u6hi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message