From 42b92ad5b26ebbc7c387aa7111f70c74b63cd84f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tomas Halman Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 13:45:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 48/57] doc: Add nsswitch.conf note to manpage We want to add note about nsswitch.conf configuration into sssd-files manpage. Resolves: https://pagure.io/SSSD/sssd/issue/3750 Reviewed-by: Jakub Hrozek Reviewed-by: Justin Stephenson (cherry picked from commit 0be037bbedd0aed6a7eccead6aabe0d07258242a) --- src/man/sssd-files.5.xml | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/man/sssd-files.5.xml b/src/man/sssd-files.5.xml index 59e1b652328b6548386d9e15938db38197ad2a92..067e21949ffe10d783cc305c57c0ae57c906f899 100644 --- a/src/man/sssd-files.5.xml +++ b/src/man/sssd-files.5.xml @@ -51,6 +51,27 @@ 5 . + + Another reason is to provide efficient caching of local users and groups. + + + Please note that some distributions enable the files domain automatically, + prepending the domain before any explicitly configured domains. + See enable_files_domain in + + sssd.conf + 5 + . + + + SSSD never handles resolution of user/group "root". Also resolution of + UID/GID 0 is not handled by SSSD. Such requests are passed to next + NSS module (usually files). + + + When SSSD is not running or responding, nss_sss returns the UNAVAIL code + which causes the request to be passed to the next module. + @@ -110,11 +131,22 @@ [domain/files] id_provider = files + + + + To leverage caching of local users and groups by SSSD + nss_sss module must be listed before nss_files module + in /etc/nsswitch.conf. + + + +passwd: sss files +group: sss files - + -- 2.14.4