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Re: Security impact of nscd and NSS module bugs (particularly NIS)
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- To: Rich Felker <dalias at libc dot org>
- Cc: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 09:05:04 +0200
- Subject: Re: Security impact of nscd and NSS module bugs (particularly NIS)
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Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> writes:
> Isn't just eliminating the unwanted modules from /etc/nsswitch.conf
> the natural way to prevent fallback on the client side?
That will affect nscd as well.
Andreas.
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