Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com> writes:

> The tools critical to mounting, checking, and listing filesystems need
> access to the password database, and thus need the ability to use pluggable
> nsswitch modules.

Listing I believe, but the mounting and checking tools don't have a
deep need to get at the passord database (we already have the bits
that do, which are non-critical listing parts of these mounting and
checking tools under #ifndef SMALL).

        - Nathan