On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 10:01:03 +0200, Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> wrote:
Why did suse drop nss_db from 9.3?
Use nscd. Does the same
No it does not. I wonder why you sweep the facts under the rug. And worse, nscd leaks user information, which is unacceptable in my environment. When /etc/passwd and the user db files are not world readable, unprivileged users cannot get a list of other users. But with nscd running, any unprivileged user can write a trivial C program to list all users on the system, despite the fact that /etc/passwd and the user db files are *not* world readable. Want to see the silly and trivial code?
libdb libraries, which always change in an incompatible way.
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