From 02425d9113f378c746dff7d4510d28719e8e9255 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Nikola=20Forr=C3=B3?= Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 14:47:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] nsswitch.conf.5: Mention subid database MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit shadow-utils use nsswitch.conf for configuring delegation of subordinate uids/gids. Reference: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/blob/3ec32f9975f262073f8fbdecd2bfaee4a1d3db48/lib/nss.c and subuid.5/subgid.5 man pages. Signed-off-by: Nikola Forró --- man5/nsswitch.conf.5 | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/man5/nsswitch.conf.5 b/man5/nsswitch.conf.5 index f2eeb24..0d969c3 100644 --- a/man5/nsswitch.conf.5 +++ b/man5/nsswitch.conf.5 @@ -109,6 +109,14 @@ databases. For example, consults the .B sudoers database. +Delegation of subordinate user/group IDs +can be configured using the +.B subid +database. Refer to +.BR subuid (5) +and +.BR subgid (5) +for more details. .PP Here is an example .I /etc/nsswitch.conf -- 2.35.3