From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Schiffer Subject: [patch] nsswitch.conf.5: clarify the "notfound" status Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:27:12 +0200 Message-ID: <4F735800.6040807@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hello, I am suggesting the following update of the "notfound" status on the nsswitch.conf.5 man page. I am not 100% sure that this is the correct place where this information on the man page should be placed. Any comments are welcome. Source for this update is comment in initgroups.c file on line 135 in glibc [1]. Version of the man pages: 3.38 Thanks, peter [1] http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=grp/initgroups.c;h=62fd1fc6de5f9ea08f31134c5ab9a36ae2d5af9e;hb=HEAD --- nsswitch.conf.5.orig 2012-03-24 19:47:30.000000000 +0100 +++ nsswitch.conf.5 2012-03-28 20:10:37.268495257 +0200 @@ -201,6 +201,9 @@ .B notfound The lookup process succeeded, but the needed value was not found. The default action is `continue'. +For compatibility reasons, if the selected action for the `group' database +is `return' and the configuration file does not contain the `initgroups' line, +the next service is always used to search for more entries. .TP .B unavail The service is permanently unavailable. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html