libnss-pgsql - Name Service Switch module for use with PostgreSQL

Abstract

This document covers setup and use of the Name Service Switch (NSS) Module libnss-pgsql.so. Its purpose is replace the flatfile user and group database in /etc with a relational database on a PostgreSQL server. It is highly configurable to fit onto most existing databases.

Copyright Notice

Copyright © 2001 Jörg Wendland

This document is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License as can be found at http://www.fsf.org/licenses/licenses.html

Contents

• 1 Prerequisites
• 2 Module and Database Setup
• 2.1 required database structure
• 2.2 configuring the module
• 3 Name Service Switch Setup
• A Examples
• A.1 Database Schema
• A.2 Confile File

libnss-pgsql - Name Service Switch module for use with PostgreSQL