Re: NIS and /etc/passwd

[Brett Lymn <brett.lymn%baesystems.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:33:22PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 
> NSS can express at least the part of "look into passwd and continue if
> no match was found". It would be easy to have a NIS config file to
> express "look for / accept the following users/groups/patterns". As
> such, I don't see the need for keeping it in /etc/passwd. In fact,
> having such a filter functionality would likely be useful for a number
> of data sources. It could certainly make the code much clearer by
> prodiving composition of independent modules.
> 

But what it cannot do is "this user account is in NIS, use all the
details but override the users home directory or shell", this can be a
very useful thing to do sometimes.

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