4 Maintainer: Adam Megacz <megacz@hcoop.net>
5 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0), libopenafs-dev, libc6-dev (>= 2.3.6)
6 Standards-Version: 3.7.2
10 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
12 Description: A NSS (Name Service Switch) module for AFS
13 A Name Service Switch (NSS) plugin is a shared library used by glibc
14 to -- among other things -- translate between usernames and numeric
15 userids and between group names and numeric groupids.
17 The libnss-afs library is an NSS plugin which answers these queries
18 using the information stored in the AFS ptserver, avoiding the need to
19 duplicate (and update) this information in /etc/passwd or LDAP. The
20 library also synthesizes the name AfsPag-XXXX for the fake group ids
21 that are used to represent AFS PAGs.
23 Based on libnss-ptdb by Frank Burkhardt <burk@cbs.mpg.de>.
24 Based on nss_pts by Todd M. Lewis.
26 You should use nscd to reduce network traffic caused by this