tags 316117 fixed-upstream
thanks

> > Is this somehow different from the passwd and group routines?
> > Do I need to strike the above para, or alternatively add some
> > text along those lines on the other 4 pages?
> 
> I'm not entirely sure. This authentication/PAM stuff is not something I
> fully understand.

Okay -- I've made similar changes now in getspnam.3, and I've 
removed the text on PAM and nsswitch.conf; ultimately, I think
these details need to be (better) described somewhere else.

Changes will all appear in man-pages-2.06.

Cheers,

Michael

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