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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2020 10:07:23 +0100
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Cc: Jesse Hathaway <jesse@...ki-mvuki.org>, musl@...ts.openwall.com, Arjun
Shankar <arjun@...hat.com>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Plans to remove nscd in Fedora
* Rich Felker:
> Thanks for filling me in on the status of this. Perhaps
> https://github.com/pikhq/musl-nscd (not part of musl, but by a
> long-time contributor) would be a useful basis for building a
> replacement glibc systems could use too?
There is also unscd: <https://busybox.net/~vda/unscd/>
It covers fewer maps, though.
For a full solution, we would need something that can deal (correctly)
with the shadow database. That's currently always in-process because we
rely on the permissions of the calling process.
Thanks,
Florian
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