[OpenAFS-announce] libnss-afs v2.01 released

megacz openafs-info@openafs.org
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:43:59 +0000


I am pleased to announce the availability of libnss-afs v2.01:

  http://www.megacz.com/software/libnss-afs.html

This version works around a bug in recent versions of pam_unix.so.

  http://git.megacz.com/?p=libnss-afs.git;a=commitdiff;h=277abbf3

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.

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