Re: (ASCEND) alternative to /etc/passwd

[Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@pointer.teuto.de>]

On 1998-07-21T00:47:40,
   "R. Marc" <rmarc@dimension.net> said:

> You could write your own version of getpwnam to take a second character
> string of a password file location and then replace getpwnam in the
> source code.
> 
> nsswitch.conf is for NIS/NIS+ which I don't think would do what you are
> trying to do here.  

This is plain wrong. At least on Linux and all other glibc based systems
(and the systems where glibc borrowed this code from;), nsswitch.conf can be
used to redirect the entire list of name services (DNS, getpwnam etc) to
other modules.

Though: If you manage to find good documentation on how to actually
IMPLEMENT this feel free to share ;-) (The glibc code is a mess imho)

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