dropbear and libnss

Jason Schoon floydpink at gmail.com
Wed Aug 23 04:50:07 WST 2006


On 8/22/06, Rich Turner <rich at storix.com> wrote:
>
> i am using dropbear as part of a bootable cd. everything works fine when i
> include the libnss_files files but i am unable to authenticate without
> them.
> if i need libnss_files then why is not dropbear library dependent on
> libnss_files?
>
> if i run ldd on all of the executables i include on the bootable cd, none
> are
> dependent on libnns_*.
>
> is there something i do not understand about libnss and linux
> authentication
> or is dropbear trying to load a subroutine in libnss that does not exist?


Glibc utilizes libnss for name lookups.  Dropbear is not directly dependant
on libnss, you have built  it dependant on glibc, which is dependant on
libnss (unfortunately, even if you statically link).

If you build dropbear against uclibc, you will not have this problem.
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