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| author | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2017-04-06 15:10:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2017-04-10 13:47:50 +0200 |
| commit | 6c1f939f086523c67a17e24c80c70db62b47b34d (patch) | |
| tree | d47285ac7eff984e5f497272625849544dc74a13 | |
| parent | 61428042e203bdf708ca45306be3db11f1c678ae (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-6c1f939f086523c67a17e24c80c70db62b47b34d.tar.gz | |
nsswitch.conf.5: Mention sudoers
It turns out that sudo drops things into nsswitch.conf, too.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man5/nsswitch.conf.5 | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man5/nsswitch.conf.5 b/man5/nsswitch.conf.5 index 1e0ec3ce9b..7a5b744ad9 100644 --- a/man5/nsswitch.conf.5 +++ b/man5/nsswitch.conf.5 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ nsswitch.conf \- Name Service Switch configuration file .SH DESCRIPTION The Name Service Switch (NSS) configuration file, .IR /etc/nsswitch.conf , -is used by the GNU C Library to determine +is used by the GNU C Library and certain other applications to determine the sources from which to obtain name-service information in a range of categories, and in what order. @@ -102,6 +102,14 @@ Shadow user passwords, used by .BR getspnam (3) and related functions. .LP +The GNU C Library ignores databases with unknown names. Some +applications use this to implement special handling for their own +databases. For example, +.BR sudo (8) +consults the +.B sudoers +database. +.LP Here is an example .I /etc/nsswitch.conf file: |