5 GNU Libc (glibc) uses the Name Service Switch (NSS) to configure the behavior
6 of the C library for the local environment, and to configure how it reads
7 system data, such as passwords and group information. This is implemented
8 using an /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file, and using one or more of the
9 /lib/libnss_* libraries. BusyBox tries to avoid using any libc calls that make
10 use of NSS. Some applets however, such as login and su, will use libc functions
13 If you enable CONFIG_USE_BB_PWD_GRP, BusyBox will use internal functions to
14 directly access the /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow files without
15 using NSS. This may allow you to run your system without the need for
16 installing any of the NSS configuration files and libraries.
18 When used with glibc, the BusyBox 'networking' applets will similarly require
19 that you install at least some of the glibc NSS stuff (in particular,
20 /etc/nsswitch.conf, /lib/libnss_dns*, /lib/libnss_files*, and /lib/libresolv*).
22 Shameless Plug: As an alternative, one could use a C library such as uClibc. In
23 addition to making your system significantly smaller, uClibc does not require the
24 use of any NSS support files or libraries.
28 Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
32 The following people have contributed code to BusyBox whether they know it or
33 not. If you have written code included in BusyBox, you should probably be
34 listed here so you can obtain your bit of eternal glory. If you should be
35 listed here, or the description of what you have done needs more detail, or is
36 incorect, please send in an update.
41 Emanuele Aina <emanuele.aina@tiscali.it>
46 Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
48 Tons of new stuff, major rewrite of most of the
49 core apps, tons of new apps as noted in header files.
50 Lots of tedious effort writing these boring docs that
51 nobody is going to actually read.
55 Laurence Anderson <l.d.anderson@warwick.ac.uk>
57 rpm2cpio, unzip, get_header_cpio, read_gz interface, rpm
61 Jeff Angielski <jeff@theptrgroup.com>
67 Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
69 expr, hostid, logname, whoami
73 John Beppu <beppu@codepoet.org>
79 Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
85 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
91 Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
93 more(v2), makedevs, dutmp, modularization, auto links file,
94 various fixes, Linux Router Project maintenance
98 Jordan Crouse <jordan@cosmicpenguin.net>
104 Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
106 tftp client insmod powerpc support
110 Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov>
112 pristine source directory compilation, lots of patches and fixes.
116 Glenn Engel <glenne@engel.org>
122 Gennady Feldman <gfeldman@gena01.com>
124 Sysklogd (single threaded syslogd, IPC Circular buffer support,
125 logread), various fixes.
129 Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
131 cp_mv.c, the test suite, various fixes to utility.c, &c.
135 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
141 Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu>
143 documentation, bugfixes, test suite
147 Stephan Linz <linz@li-pro.net>
149 ipcalc, Red Hat equivalence
153 John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
159 Glenn McGrath <bug1@optushome.com.au>
165 Manuel Novoa III <mjn3@codepoet.org>
167 cat, head, mkfifo, mknod, rmdir, sleep, tee, tty, uniq, usleep, wc, yes,
168 mesg, vconfig, make_directory, parse_mode, dirname, mode_string,
169 get_last_path_component, simplify_path, and a number trivial libbb routines
171 also bug fixes, partial rewrites, and size optimizations in
172 ash, basename, cal, cmp, cp, df, du, echo, env, ln, logname, md5sum, mkdir,
173 mv, realpath, rm, sort, tail, touch, uname, watch, arith, human_readable,
174 interface, dutmp, ifconfig, route
178 Vladimir Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru>
180 cmdedit; xargs(current), httpd(current);
181 ports: ash, crond, fdisk, inetd, stty, traceroute, top;
182 locale, various fixes
183 and irreconcilable critic of everything not perfect.
187 Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com>
189 Original author of BusyBox in 1995, 1996. Some of his code can
190 still be found hiding here and there...
194 Tim Riker <Tim@Rikers.org>
196 bug fixes, member of fan club
200 Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>
202 reset, tons and tons of bug reports and patches.
206 Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>, <crosenth@covad.com>
208 wget - Contributed by permission of Covad Communications
212 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
214 Lots of bugs fixes and patches.
218 Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
220 Remote logging feature for syslogd
224 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
226 mkswap, fsck.minix, mkfs.minix
230 Mark Whitley <markw@codepoet.org>
232 grep, sed, cut, xargs(previous),
233 style-guide, new-applet-HOWTO, bug fixes, etc.
237 Charles P. Wright <cpwright@villagenet.com>
239 gzip, mini-netcat(nc)
243 Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es>
245 tarcat (since removed), loadkmap, various fixes, Debian maintenance
249 Tito Ragusa <farmatito@tiscali.it>
251 devfsd and size optimizations in strings, openvt and deallocvt.
255 # $Id: busybox_footer.pod,v 1.16 2004/04/13 16:31:41 andersen Exp $