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All --

I'm trying to install the GNU C library under SunOS 4.1.3. I have
succeeded in compiling the library and running all the test programs
but one. The one which fails is the test for some of the password
lookup routines. The problem seems to be that "/etc/passwd" is hardwired
into the source code as the place to look for passwords, and my
network uses Sun's NIS (aka Yellow Pages), rather than /etc/passwd,
to maintain this information.

The odd thing is, the implementation of gethostbyname() seems not to
make the same mistake; more to the point, the library seems to be using
whatever version of gethostbyname() seems to be resident on the system.
There must be lots of folks who've had this same problem with the GNU
C library, and I'm hoping someone can point me to the block of code 
which will fix my problem.

Please reply to sam@mitre.org.

Sam Bayer
The MITRE Corporation

P.S. I'm not a sysadmin, and my sysadmin doesn't exactly know what the
right thing to do is.