files to many hosts and keep them up-to-date.
Nsscash is very careful when deploying the changes:
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- All files are updated using the standard "write to temporary file", "sync",
"rename" steps which is atomic on UNIX file systems. The indices are stored
in the same file preventing stale data during the update.
and verified on each `nsscash` run.
The passwd/group files have the following size restrictions:
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- maximum number of entries: '2^64-1' (uint64_t)
- maximum passwd entry size: 65543 bytes (including newline)
- maximum group entry size: 65535 bytes (including newline, only one member)
- github.com/BurntSushi/toml
- C compiler, for `libnss_cash.so.2`
-- NSS module is only supported on Little-endian systems (for now)
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- HTTP(S) server to provide the passwd/group/etc. files
+- NSS module is only supported on Little-endian systems (for now)
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Tested on Debian Buster, but should work on any GNU/Linux system. With
adaptations to the NSS module it should work on any UNIX-like system which
uses NSS.