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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 24e13aeafa..1e12173dba 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,6 +25,14 @@ Version 2.24 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type instead of “union wait”. +* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system + administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP + to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide + easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new + action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf: + group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis + Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat). + Security related changes: * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It |