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| author | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2020-07-24 16:46:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2020-07-31 12:58:56 +0200 |
| commit | 20fb7452c04221608be1359cc100387db3e36356 (patch) | |
| tree | a968f69b584562ce31f6a804f73300c6f1b2731f | |
| parent | 0ad926f34937f7b4843a8b49e5d93199601fe324 (diff) | |
| download | glibc-20fb7452c04221608be1359cc100387db3e36356.tar.xz glibc-20fb7452c04221608be1359cc100387db3e36356.zip | |
NEWS: Deprecate nss_hesiod
Storing user databases in DNS, without client-side DNSSEC validation,
is problematic from a security point of view.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
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@@ -147,6 +147,11 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared object, to enable the hooks. +* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a + future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to + switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as + LDAP. + Changes to build and runtime requirements: * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting |