status of nsswitch.conf in current?
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at freebsd.org
Fri Aug 22 08:52:04 PDT 2003
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:40:32AM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote:
> I saw that. I guess my question is whether a default nsswitch.conf file
> will be checked into /etc and /usr/share/examples/etc, or whether it
> will be left empty? I would expect that if this capability was working,
> that a default nsswitch.conf would be checked into /etc.
>
Adding /etc/nsswitch.conf with the default settings would just slow the
things down. For the same reason, we don't provide /etc/resolv.conf by
default. Adding src/share/examples/etc/nsswitch.conf and installing it
in /usr/share/examples/etc/ is a good idea.
> Many admins
> may not know the system has this capability unless they see a copy of
> nsswitch.conf in /etc.
>
Many admins should learn how to consult with the release notes then. ;-)
Cheers,
--
Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA,
ru at sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru at FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer
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