[OpenAFS-announce] libnss-afs v1.05 released

Adam Megacz openafs-info@openafs.org
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:09:08 -0700


I am pleased to announce the availability of libnss-afs v1.05:

  http://www.hcoop.net/~megacz/software/libnss-afs.html

A Name Service Switch (NSS) plugin is a shared library used by glibc
to -- among other things -- translate between usernames and numeric
userids and between group names and numeric groupids.

The libnss-afs library is an NSS plugin which answers these queries
using the information stored in the AFS ptserver, avoiding the need to
duplicate (and update) this information in /etc/passwd or LDAP.  The
library also synthesizes the name AfsPag-XXXX for the fake group ids
that are used to represent AFS PAGs.

  - a