Security impact of nscd and NSS module bugs (particularly NIS)

Roland McGrath roland@hack.frob.com
Fri Jul 4 19:23:00 GMT 2014


> If nscd crashes and unwanted in-process NSS module fallback is a 
> concern, maybe we could add some construct that once nscd has been 
> started first, fallback is disabled?  Would that make sense?

Plausible.  Today there is no client-side configuration related to nscd at
all.  So you'd have to come up with something.



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