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diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ index 8ee248d354..30855d912d 100644 --- a/FAQ +++ b/FAQ @@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ please let me know. errors whenever I try to link any program. 2.24. When I use nscd the machine freezes. 2.25. I need lots of open files. What do I have to do? +2.26. How do I get the same behavior on parsing /etc/passwd and + /etc/group as I have with libc5 ? 3. Source and binary incompatibilities, and what to do about them @@ -214,7 +216,7 @@ program has the needed functionality. We recommend version GNU make version 3.75 or 3.77. Versions before 3.75 have bugs and/or are missing features. Version 3.76 has bugs which appear when building big projects like GNU libc. 3.76.1 appears to work but -some people have reported problems. If you build GNU make 3.77 from source, +some people have reported problems. If you build GNU make 3.77 from source, please read question 4.6 first. @@ -990,6 +992,26 @@ allowed to have open at any time using This will work even if the kernel limits change. + +2.26. How do I get the same behavior on parsing /etc/passwd and + /etc/group as I have with libc5 ? + +{TK} The name switch setup in /etc/nsswitch.conf selected by most Linux +distributions does not support +/- and netgroup entries in the files like +/etc/passwd. Though this is the preferred setup some people might have +setups coming over from the libc5 days where it was the default to recognize +lines like this. To get back to the old behaviour one simply has to change +the rules for passwd, group, and shadow in the nsswitch.conf file as +follows: + +passwd: compat +group: compat +shadow: compat + +passwd_compat: nis +group_compat: nis +shadow_compat: nis + . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |