status of nsswitch.conf in current?

[Ruslan Ermilov]

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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