[PATCH] Move nss_compat from nis to nss subdir and install it unconditionally.

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Wed Oct 4 16:33:00 GMT 2017


On 10/04/2017 06:01 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:

>> and that the failure to log in produces an error message that will
>> point the sysadmin at least vaguely in the right direction.
> 
> This requires more work because __nss_lookup_function doesn't
> distinguish a missing library from a library that does not implement the
> function.

It also does not distinguish a missing library from a transient failure 
during library loading (bug 22041).  This is probably the more 
significant issue here.

I don't expect this to be easy to fix, unfortunately.

Thanks,
Florian



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