I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m not the only person who works in an environment where there are many thousands of Linux and Unix boxes, and they are all configured to use LDAP for &#x2F;etc&#x2F;passwd, &#x2F;etc&#x2F;group, etc. If a program uses NSS, it will just work; if it tries to read &#x2F;etc&#x2F;passwd for itself, it won&#x27;t find most of the users (including likely the user it is running as).<p>One solution might be if the statically-linked program included an nscd client, since most people using NSS+LDAP will be using nscd for caching.