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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-12-16 11:10:36 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-12-16 11:10:36 +0000
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Update.
1998-12-16 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de> * sunrpc/rpc/xdr.h: Revert patch from 1998-12-14, partly revert patch from 1998-12-01.
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@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ program has the needed functionality.
We recommend version GNU make version 3.75 or 3.77. Versions before 3.75
have bugs and/or are missing features. Version 3.76 has bugs which
appear when building big projects like GNU libc. 3.76.1 appears to work but
-some people have reported problems. If you build GNU make 3.77 from source,
+some people have reported problems. If you build GNU make 3.77 from source,
please read ?make first.
?? Do I need a special linker or assembler?
@@ -813,6 +813,25 @@ allowed to have open at any time using
This will work even if the kernel limits change.
+?? How do I get the same behavior on parsing /etc/passwd and
+ /etc/group as I have with libc5 ?
+
+{TK} The name switch setup in /etc/nsswitch.conf selected by most Linux
+distributions does not support +/- and netgroup entries in the files like
+/etc/passwd. Though this is the preferred setup some people might have
+setups coming over from the libc5 days where it was the default to recognize
+lines like this. To get back to the old behaviour one simply has to change
+the rules for passwd, group, and shadow in the nsswitch.conf file as
+follows:
+
+passwd: compat
+group: compat
+shadow: compat
+
+passwd_compat: nis
+group_compat: nis
+shadow_compat: nis
+
? Source and binary incompatibilities, and what to do about them