Information about the package, libnss-mysql, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libnss-mysql package is designed for, NSS library for MySQL.
Package Name:
libnss-mysql
Summary:
NSS library for MySQL
Description:
Store your UNIX user accounts in MySQL. "libnss-mysql" enables the following: * System-wide authentication and name service using a MySQL database. Applications do not need to be MySQL-aware or modified in any way. * Storing authentication information in a database instead of text files. * Creation of a single authentication database for multiple servers. This is often referred to as the "Single Sign-on" problem. * Writing data-modification routines (IE self-management web interface). libnss-mysql is similar to NIS or LDAP. It provides the same centralized authentication service through a database. What does this mean? Username, uid, gid, password, etc comes from a MySQL database instead of /etc/password, /etc/shadow, and /etc/group. A user configured in MySQL will look and behave just like a user configured in /etc/passwd. Your applications such as ls, finger, sendmail, qmail, exim, postfix, proftpd, X, sshd, etc. will all 'see' these users!
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.5
Release:
12.el6
Size:
43 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the libnss-mysql package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libnss-mysql
This command will install libnss-mysql on the server.
yum remove libnss-mysql
This command will un-install libnss-mysql on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libnss-mysql, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libnss-mysql
This command will un-install libnss-mysql on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libnss-mysql when using the -y flag.
yum update libnss-mysql
This command will update libnss-mysql to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libnss-mysql, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libnss-mysql
This command will update libnss-mysql to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libnss-mysql when using the -y flag.
yum info libnss-mysql
This command will show you core information about the libnss-mysql package.
yum deplist libnss-mysql
This command will show you the dependencies for libnss-mysql. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update libnss-mysql
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libnss-mysql. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.