dropbear and libnss

[Rich Turner]

unfortunately using uclibc is not an option for me on this project.

is there anyway for dropbear to authenticate without using libnss? my guess is 
probably not because i have dropbear built against glibc, which needs libnss 
even though it is not dependent on libnss.

On Tuesday 22 August 2006 13:50, Jason Schoon wrote:
> 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.