4 Maintainer: Adam Megacz <megacz@hcoop.net>
5 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0), libopenafs-dev (>= 1.6.1),
6 libc6-dev (>= 2.3.6), libkrb5-dev (>= 1.10)
7 Standards-Version: 3.7.2
11 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
13 Description: A NSS (Name Service Switch) module for AFS
14 A Name Service Switch (NSS) plugin is a shared library used by glibc
15 to -- among other things -- translate between usernames and numeric
16 userids and between group names and numeric groupids.
18 The libnss-afs library is an NSS plugin which answers these queries
19 using the information stored in the AFS ptserver, avoiding the need to
20 duplicate (and update) this information in /etc/passwd or LDAP. The
21 library also synthesizes the name AfsPag-XXXX for the fake group ids
22 that are used to represent AFS PAGs.
24 Based on libnss-ptdb by Frank Burkhardt <burk@cbs.mpg.de>.
25 Based on nss_pts by Todd M. Lewis.
27 You should use nscd to reduce network traffic caused by this