Re: [PATCH v2] nss: Make nsswitch.conf more distribution friendly.

[Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>]

* Carlos O'Donell:

> On 3/20/19 12:58 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Carlos O'Donell:
>> 
>>> +# An example Name Service Switch config file. This file should be
>>> +# sorted with the most-used services at the beginning.
>> 
>> The example file itself doesn't seem to follow this.
>
> I noticed that netmasks, automount, and bootparams are not handled by
> glibc, but listed in the nsswitch.conf. Are these handled by some other
> application which parses /etc/nsswitch.conf? I'm not aware of any that
> do so, and so I've removed them.
>
> We never got around to implementing the accessor functions for them,
> and only added publickey. I cleaned up the docs and referenced the info
> docs from the default nsswitch.conf.

I think we should only list what is actually implemented in glibc.

sudo uses /etc/nsswitch.conf for a custom database, too, if I recall
correctly.

This is possible because the glibc parser simply ignores unknown
entries.

> +# In order of most-used services first.
> +passwd:     files
> +group:      files
> +hosts:      files dns
> +networks:   files dns
> +initgroups: files
> +shadow:     files
> +gshadow:    files
> +netgroup:   files
> +services:   files
> +protocols:  files
> +ethers:     files
> +aliases:    files
> +rpc:        files
> +publickey:  files

I fear we can discuss this to death.  I would suggest alphabetic order
to avoid that.

I have no further comments on the patch.