On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> Well, actually, Kerberos doesn't really fit into the nsswitch model.
> 
> In the Athena environment (the original user of Kerberos), Hesiod (i.e.
> "dns" in nsswitch.conf) is used for the user/group database info,

So, shouldn't use of Kerberos for password changing depend on presence
of DNS in the nsswitch.conf entry for password?  Currently, setting
nsswitch.conf to "files" only still doesn't disable Kerberos attempts.

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