status of nsswitch.conf in current?
Jacques A. Vidrine
nectar at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 22 11:20:39 PDT 2003
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:15:01AM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> On the other hand, having
>
> /etc/nsswitch.conf.example
>
> would
> a) Advertise the existence of nsswitch capabilities in
> an obvious place where people new to FreeBSD would
> see it.
> b) Document the defaults.
> c) Not slow anything down.
> d) Serve as an example and template for people just
> getting started..
There is no `default nsswitch.conf' mostly because it would have to be
kept in sync with the *actual* defaults as implemented in libc.
The nsswitch.conf(5) man page fulfills (a)-(d). That _is_ what
documentation is for, after all.
Cheers,
--
Jacques Vidrine . NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal
nectar at celabo.org . jvidrine at verio.net . nectar at freebsd.org . nectar at kth.se
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