| John Beppu | 5bca0af | 2001-04-05 19:41:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | =head1 LIBC NSS |
| 2 | |
| 3 | GNU Libc uses the Name Service Switch (NSS) to configure the behavior of the C |
| 4 | library for the local environment, and to configure how it reads system data, |
| 5 | such as passwords and group information. BusyBox has made it Policy that it |
| 6 | will never use NSS, and will never use and libc calls that make use of NSS. |
| 7 | This allows you to run an embedded system without the need for installing an |
| 8 | /etc/nsswitch.conf file and without and /lib/libnss_* libraries installed. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | If you are using a system that is using a remote LDAP server for authentication |
| 11 | via GNU libc NSS, and you want to use BusyBox, then you will need to adjust the |
| 12 | BusyBox source. Chances are though, that if you have enough space to install |
| 13 | of that stuff on your system, then you probably want the full GNU utilities. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | =head1 SEE ALSO |
| 16 | |
| 17 | textutils(1), shellutils(1), etc... |
| 18 | |
| 19 | =head1 MAINTAINER |
| 20 | |
| 21 | Erik Andersen <andersee@debian.org> <andersen@lineo.com> |
| 22 | |
| 23 | =head1 AUTHORS |
| 24 | |
| 25 | The following people have contributed code to BusyBox whether |
| 26 | they know it or not. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | |
| 29 | =for html <br> |
| 30 | |
| 31 | Erik Andersen <andersen@lineo.com>, <andersee@debian.org> |
| 32 | |
| 33 | Tons of new stuff, major rewrite of most of the |
| 34 | core apps, tons of new apps as noted in header files. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | =for html <br> |
| 37 | |
| 38 | Edward Betts <edward@debian.org> |
| 39 | |
| 40 | expr, hostid, logname, tty, wc, whoami, yes |
| 41 | |
| 42 | =for html <br> |
| 43 | |
| 44 | John Beppu <beppu@lineo.com> |
| 45 | |
| 46 | du, head, nslookup, sort, tee, uniq |
| 47 | |
| 48 | =for html <br> |
| 49 | |
| 50 | Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> |
| 51 | |
| 52 | tiny-ls(ls) |
| 53 | |
| 54 | =for html <br> |
| 55 | |
| 56 | Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org> |
| 57 | |
| 58 | fbset, ping, hostname, and mkfifo |
| 59 | |
| 60 | =for html <br> |
| 61 | |
| 62 | Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com> |
| 63 | |
| 64 | more(v2), makedevs, dutmp, modularization, auto links file, |
| 65 | various fixes, Linux Router Project maintenance |
| 66 | |
| 67 | =for html <br> |
| 68 | |
| 69 | Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org> |
| 70 | |
| 71 | cp_mv.c, the test suite, various fixes to utility.c, &c. |
| 72 | |
| 73 | =for html <br> |
| 74 | |
| 75 | Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> |
| 76 | |
| 77 | mktemp.c |
| 78 | |
| 79 | =for html <br> |
| 80 | |
| 81 | Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu> |
| 82 | |
| 83 | documentation, bugfixes |
| 84 | |
| 85 | =for html <br> |
| 86 | |
| 87 | John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com> |
| 88 | |
| 89 | dirname, tr |
| 90 | |
| 91 | =for html <br> |
| 92 | |
| 93 | Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au> |
| 94 | |
| 95 | ar.c |
| 96 | |
| 97 | =for html <br> |
| 98 | |
| 99 | Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com> |
| 100 | |
| 101 | Original author of BusyBox. His code is still in many apps. |
| 102 | |
| 103 | =for html <br> |
| 104 | |
| 105 | Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>, <crosenth@covad.com> |
| 106 | |
| 107 | wget - Contributed by permission of Covad Communications |
| 108 | |
| 109 | =for html <br> |
| 110 | |
| 111 | Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> |
| 112 | |
| 113 | Lots of bugs fixes and patches. |
| 114 | |
| 115 | =for html <br> |
| 116 | |
| 117 | Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com> |
| 118 | |
| 119 | Remote logging feature for syslogd |
| 120 | |
| 121 | =for html <br> |
| 122 | |
| 123 | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> |
| 124 | |
| 125 | mkswap, fsck.minix, mkfs.minix |
| 126 | |
| 127 | =for html <br> |
| 128 | |
| 129 | Mark Whitley <markw@lineo.com> |
| 130 | |
| 131 | sed remix, bug fixes, style-guide, etc. |
| 132 | |
| 133 | =for html <br> |
| 134 | |
| 135 | Charles P. Wright <cpwright@villagenet.com> |
| 136 | |
| 137 | gzip, mini-netcat(nc) |
| 138 | |
| 139 | =for html <br> |
| 140 | |
| 141 | Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es> |
| 142 | |
| 143 | tarcat (since removed), loadkmap, various fixes, Debian maintenance |
| 144 | |
| 145 | =cut |
| 146 | |
| 147 | # $Id: busybox_footer.pod,v 1.1 2001/04/05 19:41:23 beppu Exp $ |