[nzlug] General server/client enquiry

[Daniel Pittman]

Nevyn <nevynh at gmail.com> writes:
> On Feb 12, 2008 1:58 PM, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
>> Roland Hill <rolandh at ak.planet.gen.nz> writes:

[...]

> I really really really hate sounding dense... but what is NSS Data??

All the properties of the account other that the password verification:
full name, home directory, shell, uid, primary gid, secondary gids, etc.

See the libc documentation for the Name Service Switch subsystem for
details, and /etc/nsswitch.conf.

Regards,
        Daniel
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