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From: Florian Weimer <fw@sourceware.org>
To: glibc-cvs@sourceware.org
Subject: [glibc] NEWS: Deprecate nss_hesiod
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 10:59:50 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200731105950.1BFBA3858D35@sourceware.org> (raw)

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=20fb7452c04221608be1359cc100387db3e36356

commit 20fb7452c04221608be1359cc100387db3e36356
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Jul 24 16:46:23 2020 +0200

    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>

Diff:
---
 NEWS | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1ef4a0a7a4..83aed60e19 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -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


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