Unable to use nsswitch.conf with Busybox

Denis Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu May 17 23:46:14 UTC 2007


Hi Jari,

On Thursday 17 May 2007 16:01, Jari Takkala wrote:
> I am having some trouble getting Busybox to authenticate against LDAP.
> I do not see Busybox calling glibc's getpwnam() when I do an ltrace,
> and consequently I don't see /etc/nsswitch.conf being opened.
> I only see an open and read of /etc/passwd.   
> 
> This is Busybox 1.4.0 with glibc 2.5, the relevant config options are:
> 
> CONFIG_FEATURE_SHADOWPASSWDS=y
> # CONFIG_USE_BB_SHADOW is not set
> # CONFIG_USE_BB_PWD_GRP is not set

Huh, indeed... does attached patch help?

> I passed the LDFLAG of -lnsl to Busybox, don't know if that is required

I don't think it's necessary.

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vda
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