nss_wrapper

A wrapper for the user, group and hosts NSS API

There are projects which provide daemons that need to be able to create, modify and delete Unix users, or just switch user IDs to interact with the system, e.g. a user space file server. To be able to test that, you need the privilege to modify the passwd and groups files. With nss_wrapper, it is possible to define your own passwd and groups files which will be used by software to act correctly while under test. If you have a client and server under test, they normally use functions to resolve network names to addresses (DNS) or vice versa. The nss_wrappers allow you to create a hosts file to setup name resolution for the addresses you use with socket_wrapper. To use it, set the following environment variables: LD_PRELOAD=libuid_wrapper.so NSS_WRAPPER_PASSWD=/path/to/passwd NSS_WRAPPER_GROUP=/path/to/group NSS_WRAPPER_HOSTS=/path/to/host This package does not have a devel package, because this project is for development/testing.