Projects tagged ‘nss’ and ‘unix’

A generalized C++ I/O library that includes support for * BSD sockets (IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP) * OpenSSL secure streams * NSPR sockets * NSS secure streams * Kernel message ... [More] queues * Files and pipes * Serial/tty * Gtkmm widgets * et. al. [Less]

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 ... [More] machine in your network, you want to share usernames between those systems. Linux administrators have 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 using an asynchronous cron job and a glorified script, improving the speed and reliability of NSS lookups. We presented a talk at linux.conf.au 2008 on the problems in NSS and the requirements for a solution. Here, we present to you this glorified script, which is a little more extensible than ldapsearch | awk > /etc/passwdRead more about the motivation behind this tool. Latest VersionThe latest version is 0.8.8. Read the Release Notes here, and here for installation instructions. [Less]