3 GNU Libc (glibc) uses the Name Service Switch (NSS) to configure the behavior
4 of the C library for the local environment, and to configure how it reads
5 system data, such as passwords and group information. This is implemented
6 using an /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file, and using one or more of the
7 /lib/libnss_* libraries. BusyBox tries to avoid using any libc calls that make
8 use of NSS. Some applets however, such as login and su, will use libc functions
11 If you enable CONFIG_USE_BB_PWD_GRP, BusyBox will use internal functions to
12 directly access the /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow files without
13 using NSS. This may allow you to run your system without the need for
14 installing any of the NSS configuration files and libraries.
16 When used with glibc, the BusyBox 'networking' applets will similarly require
17 that you install at least some of the glibc NSS stuff (in particular,
18 /etc/nsswitch.conf, /lib/libnss_dns*, /lib/libnss_files*, and /lib/libresolv*).
20 Shameless Plug: As an alternative, one could use a C library such as uClibc. In
21 addition to making your system significantly smaller, uClibc does not require the
22 use of any NSS support files or libraries.
26 Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
30 The following people have contributed code to BusyBox whether they know it or
31 not. If you have written code included in BusyBox, you should probably be
32 listed here so you can obtain your bit of eternal glory. If you should be
33 listed here, or the description of what you have done needs more detail, or is
34 incorrect, please send in an update.
39 Emanuele Aina <emanuele.aina@tiscali.it>
44 Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
46 Tons of new stuff, major rewrite of most of the
47 core apps, tons of new apps as noted in header files.
48 Lots of tedious effort writing these boring docs that
49 nobody is going to actually read.
53 Laurence Anderson <l.d.anderson@warwick.ac.uk>
55 rpm2cpio, unzip, get_header_cpio, read_gz interface, rpm
59 Jeff Angielski <jeff@theptrgroup.com>
65 Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
67 expr, hostid, logname, whoami
71 John Beppu <beppu@codepoet.org>
77 Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
83 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
89 Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
91 more(v2), makedevs, dutmp, modularization, auto links file,
92 various fixes, Linux Router Project maintenance
96 Jordan Crouse <jordan@cosmicpenguin.net>
102 Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
104 tftp client insmod powerpc support
108 Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov>
110 pristine source directory compilation, lots of patches and fixes.
114 Glenn Engel <glenne@engel.org>
120 Gennady Feldman <gfeldman@gena01.com>
122 Sysklogd (single threaded syslogd, IPC Circular buffer support,
123 logread), various fixes.
127 Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
129 cp_mv.c, the test suite, various fixes to utility.c, &c.
133 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
139 Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu>
141 documentation, bugfixes, test suite
145 Stephan Linz <linz@li-pro.net>
147 ipcalc, Red Hat equivalence
151 John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
157 Glenn McGrath <bug1@iinet.net.au>
159 Common unarchiving code and unarchiving applets, ifupdown, ftpgetput,
160 nameif, sed, patch, fold, install, uudecode.
161 Various bugfixes, review and apply numerous patches.
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 Paul Fox <pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us>
257 vi editing mode for ash, various other patches/fixes
261 Roberto A. Foglietta <me@roberto.foglietta.name>
267 Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
273 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
275 initial e2fsprogs, printenv, setarch, sum, misc
279 Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com>
281 fixed two bugs in msh and hush (exitcode of killed processes)