Re: PATCH: disabling dependence on dynamic NSS modules

[Clint Adams <clint@xxxxxxx>]

> If you run nscd, applications will ask it over a unix socket using a
> standard protocol, nscd will dlopen the required libs, do the lookups,
> and return the result.  It also caches results so access to slow
> providers like ldaps becomes tolerable.  It's basically required when
> using newish versions of Oracle since it includes its own ldap
> libraries which conflict with openldap, so if you are using nss_ldap
> and not running nscd, you coredump :)

In situations when one needs a statically-compiled shell, there is a
high degree of probability that nscd won't run.