Mention sudoers in nsswitch.conf(5)

Mention sudoers in nsswitch.conf(5)

[Florian Weimer]

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It turns out that sudo drops things into nsswitch.conf, too.  It has 
been suggested that we should mention this in the manual page.

Thanks,
Florian

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diff --git a/man5/nsswitch.conf.5 b/man5/nsswitch.conf.5
index 1e0ec3c..7a5b744 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:

Re: Mention sudoers in nsswitch.conf(5)

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On 04/06/2017 03:10 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> It turns out that sudo drops things into nsswitch.conf, too.  It has 
> been suggested that we should mention this in the manual page.

Thanks, Florian. Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael


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