257 lines
5.6 KiB
Plaintext
257 lines
5.6 KiB
Plaintext
=back
|
|
|
|
=head1 LIBC NSS
|
|
|
|
GNU Libc (glibc) uses the Name Service Switch (NSS) to configure the behavior
|
|
of the C library for the local environment, and to configure how it reads
|
|
system data, such as passwords and group information. This is implemented
|
|
using an /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file, and using one or more of the
|
|
/lib/libnss_* libraries. BusyBox tries to avoid using any libc calls that make
|
|
use of NSS. Some applets however, such as login and su, will use libc functions
|
|
that require NSS.
|
|
|
|
If you enable CONFIG_USE_BB_PWD_GRP, BusyBox will use internal functions to
|
|
directly access the /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow files without
|
|
using NSS. This may allow you to run your system without the need for
|
|
installing any of the NSS configuration files and libraries.
|
|
|
|
When used with glibc, the BusyBox 'networking' applets will similarly require
|
|
that you install at least some of the glibc NSS stuff (in particular,
|
|
/etc/nsswitch.conf, /lib/libnss_dns*, /lib/libnss_files*, and /lib/libresolv*).
|
|
|
|
Shameless Plug: As an alternative, one could use a C library such as uClibc. In
|
|
addition to making your system significantly smaller, uClibc does not require the
|
|
use of any NSS support files or libraries.
|
|
|
|
=head1 MAINTAINER
|
|
|
|
Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
|
|
|
|
=head1 AUTHORS
|
|
|
|
The following people have contributed code to BusyBox whether they know it or
|
|
not. If you have written code included in BusyBox, you should probably be
|
|
listed here so you can obtain your bit of eternal glory. If you should be
|
|
listed here, or the description of what you have done needs more detail, or is
|
|
incorect, please send in an update.
|
|
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Emanuele Aina <emanuele.aina@tiscali.it>
|
|
run-parts
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
|
|
|
|
Tons of new stuff, major rewrite of most of the
|
|
core apps, tons of new apps as noted in header files.
|
|
Lots of tedious effort writing these boring docs that
|
|
nobody is going to actually read.
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Laurence Anderson <l.d.anderson@warwick.ac.uk>
|
|
|
|
rpm2cpio, unzip, get_header_cpio, read_gz interface, rpm
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Jeff Angielski <jeff@theptrgroup.com>
|
|
|
|
ftpput, ftpget
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
|
|
|
|
expr, hostid, logname, whoami
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
John Beppu <beppu@codepoet.org>
|
|
|
|
du, nslookup, sort
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
|
|
|
|
tiny-ls(ls)
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
|
|
|
|
fbset, ping, hostname
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
|
|
|
|
more(v2), makedevs, dutmp, modularization, auto links file,
|
|
various fixes, Linux Router Project maintenance
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Jordan Crouse <jordan@cosmicpenguin.net>
|
|
|
|
ipcalc
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
|
|
|
|
tftp client insmod powerpc support
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov>
|
|
|
|
pristine source directory compilation, lots of patches and fixes.
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Glenn Engel <glenne@engel.org>
|
|
|
|
httpd
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Gennady Feldman <gfeldman@gena01.com>
|
|
|
|
Sysklogd (single threaded syslogd, IPC Circular buffer support,
|
|
logread), various fixes.
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
|
|
|
|
cp_mv.c, the test suite, various fixes to utility.c, &c.
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
|
|
|
|
mktemp.c
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu>
|
|
|
|
documentation, bugfixes, test suite
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Stephan Linz <linz@li-pro.net>
|
|
|
|
ipcalc, Red Hat equivalence
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
|
|
|
|
tr
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Glenn McGrath <bug1@optushome.com.au>
|
|
|
|
ar, dpkg, dpkg-deb
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Manuel Novoa III <mjn3@codepoet.org>
|
|
|
|
cat, head, mkfifo, mknod, rmdir, sleep, tee, tty, uniq, usleep, wc, yes,
|
|
mesg, vconfig, make_directory, parse_mode, dirname, mode_string,
|
|
get_last_path_component, simplify_path, and a number trivial libbb routines
|
|
|
|
also bug fixes, partial rewrites, and size optimizations in
|
|
ash, basename, cal, cmp, cp, df, du, echo, env, ln, logname, md5sum, mkdir,
|
|
mv, realpath, rm, sort, tail, touch, uname, watch, arith, human_readable,
|
|
interface, dutmp, ifconfig, route
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Vladimir Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru>
|
|
|
|
cmdedit; xargs(current), httpd(current);
|
|
ports: ash, crond, fdisk, inetd, stty, traceroute, top;
|
|
locale, various fixes
|
|
and irreconcilable critic of everything not perfect.
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com>
|
|
|
|
Original author of BusyBox in 1995, 1996. Some of his code can
|
|
still be found hiding here and there...
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Tim Riker <Tim@Rikers.org>
|
|
|
|
bug fixes, member of fan club
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>
|
|
|
|
reset, tons and tons of bug reports and patches.
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>, <crosenth@covad.com>
|
|
|
|
wget - Contributed by permission of Covad Communications
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
|
|
|
|
Lots of bugs fixes and patches.
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
|
|
|
|
Remote logging feature for syslogd
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
|
|
|
|
mkswap, fsck.minix, mkfs.minix
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Mark Whitley <markw@codepoet.org>
|
|
|
|
grep, sed, cut, xargs(previous),
|
|
style-guide, new-applet-HOWTO, bug fixes, etc.
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Charles P. Wright <cpwright@villagenet.com>
|
|
|
|
gzip, mini-netcat(nc)
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es>
|
|
|
|
tarcat (since removed), loadkmap, various fixes, Debian maintenance
|
|
|
|
=for html <br>
|
|
|
|
Tito Ragusa <farmatito@tiscali.it>
|
|
|
|
devfsd and size optimizations in strings, openvt and deallocvt.
|
|
|
|
=cut
|
|
|
|
# $Id: busybox_footer.pod,v 1.16 2004/04/13 16:31:41 andersen Exp $
|
|
|