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| author | Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> | 2020-07-08 13:06:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2020-07-08 17:25:57 +0200 |
| commit | ae7a94e5e3edf78f4da562edc05ece229614c716 (patch) | |
| tree | be0969c61080fc1dbd69293944a3362b20db7cff /manual/nss.texi | |
| parent | acb527929d0c2b3bb0798472c42ddb3203729708 (diff) | |
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Remove --enable-obsolete-nsl configure flag
this means that *always* libnsl is only built as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules libnss_nis and libnss_nisplus are not built at all, libnsl's headers aren't installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not affect libnss_compat which does not depended on libnsl since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS. libnsl code depends on Sun RPC, e.g. on --enable-obsolete-rpc (installed libnsl headers use installed Sun RPC headers), which will be removed in the following commit.
Diffstat (limited to 'manual/nss.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/nss.texi | 15 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/manual/nss.texi b/manual/nss.texi index 821469a78a..80e730768e 100644 --- a/manual/nss.texi +++ b/manual/nss.texi @@ -328,17 +328,12 @@ For the @code{hosts} and @code{networks} databases the default value is the DNS service not to be available but if it is available the answer it returns is definitive. -The @code{passwd}, @code{group}, and @code{shadow} databases are +The @code{passwd}, @code{group}, and @code{shadow} databases was traditionally handled in a special way. The appropriate files in the -@file{/etc} directory are read but if an entry with a name starting -with a @code{+} character is found NIS is used. This kind of lookup -remains possible if @theglibc{} was configured with the -@code{--enable-obsolete-nsl} option and the special lookup service -@code{compat} is used. If @theglibc{} was configured with the -@code{--enable-obsolete-nsl} option the default value for the three -databases above is @code{compat [NOTFOUND=return] files}. If the -@code{--enable-obsolete-nsl} option was not used the default value -for the services is @code{files}. +@file{/etc} directory were read but if an entry with a name starting +with a @code{+} character was found NIS was used. This kind of lookup +was removed and now the default value for the services is @code{files}. +libnss_compat no longer depends on libnsl and can be used without NIS. For all other databases the default value is @code{files} unless @theglibc{} was configured with @code{--enable-obsolete-rpc} option, in |