[PATCH] New nscd option for droping privilegs

[Thorsten Kukuk]

Hi,

I have created a patch for glibc 2.2, which allows nscd to change
the uid to a user without special privilegs at startup. This will 
only be done, if the admin configures it in nscd.conf, and no secure
option (-S) is used.

  Thorsten

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