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-rw-r--r--manual/install.texi10
-rw-r--r--manual/nss.texi15
-rw-r--r--manual/nsswitch.texi16
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/manual/install.texi b/manual/install.texi
index c1e49a9..ea0059a 100644
--- a/manual/install.texi
+++ b/manual/install.texi
@@ -257,16 +257,6 @@ This frontend allows users to specify tunables as a colon-separated list in a
single environment variable @env{GLIBC_TUNABLES}.
@end table
-@item --enable-obsolete-nsl
-By default, libnsl is only built as shared library for backward
-compatibility and the NSS modules libnss_compat, libnss_nis and
-libnss_nisplus are not built at all.
-Use this option to enable libnsl with all depending NSS modules and
-header files.
-For architectures and ABIs that have been added after version 2.28 of
-@theglibc{} this option is not available, and the libnsl compatibility
-library is not built.
-
@item --disable-crypt
Do not install the passphrase-hashing library @file{libcrypt} or the
header file @file{crypt.h}. @file{unistd.h} will still declare the
diff --git a/manual/nss.texi b/manual/nss.texi
index 821469a..80e7307 100644
--- a/manual/nss.texi
+++ b/manual/nss.texi
@@ -328,17 +328,12 @@ For the @code{hosts} and @code{networks} databases the default value is
the DNS service not to be available but if it is available the answer it
returns is definitive.
-The @code{passwd}, @code{group}, and @code{shadow} databases are
+The @code{passwd}, @code{group}, and @code{shadow} databases was
traditionally handled in a special way. The appropriate files in the
-@file{/etc} directory are read but if an entry with a name starting
-with a @code{+} character is found NIS is used. This kind of lookup
-remains possible if @theglibc{} was configured with the
-@code{--enable-obsolete-nsl} option and the special lookup service
-@code{compat} is used. If @theglibc{} was configured with the
-@code{--enable-obsolete-nsl} option the default value for the three
-databases above is @code{compat [NOTFOUND=return] files}. If the
-@code{--enable-obsolete-nsl} option was not used the default value
-for the services is @code{files}.
+@file{/etc} directory were read but if an entry with a name starting
+with a @code{+} character was found NIS was used. This kind of lookup
+was removed and now the default value for the services is @code{files}.
+libnss_compat no longer depends on libnsl and can be used without NIS.
For all other databases the default value is @code{files} unless
@theglibc{} was configured with @code{--enable-obsolete-rpc} option, in
diff --git a/manual/nsswitch.texi b/manual/nsswitch.texi
index 62e7f60..a6ff3be 100644
--- a/manual/nsswitch.texi
+++ b/manual/nsswitch.texi
@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@
# Name Service Switch configuration file.
#
-passwd: db files nis
+passwd: db files
shadow: files
-group: db files nis
+group: db files
-hosts: files nisplus nis dns
-networks: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
+hosts: files dns
+networks: files
-ethers: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] db files
-protocols: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] db files
-rpc: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] db files
-services: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] db files
+ethers: db files
+protocols: db files
+rpc: db files
+services: db files