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nsscache

nsscache is a Python library and a commandline frontend to that library that synchronises a local NSS cache against a remote directory service, such as LDAP. As soon as you have more than one machine in your network, you want to share usernames between those systems. Linux administrators have ... [More] been brought up on the convention of LDAP or NIS as a directory service, and /etc/nsswitch.conf, nss_ldap.so, and nscd to manage their nameservice lookups. Even small networks will have experienced intermittent name lookup failures, such as a mail receiver sometimes returning "User not found" on a mailbox destination because of a slow socket over a congested network, or erratic cache behaviour by nscd. To combat this problem, we have separated the network from the NSS lookup codepath, instead u [Less]