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configure FreeBSD so that various databases such as passwd and group can be
looked up using flat files, NIS, or Hesiod.
= Hesiod has been added to libc (see hesiod(3)).
= A library routine for parsing nsswitch.conf and invoking callback
functions as specified has been added to libc (see nsdispatch(3)).
= The following C library functions have been modified to use nsdispatch:
. getgrent, getgrnam, getgrgid
. getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid
. getusershell
. getaddrinfo
. gethostbyname, gethostbyname2, gethostbyaddr
. getnetbyname, getnetbyaddr
. getipnodebyname, getipnodebyaddr, getnodebyname, getnodebyaddr
= host.conf has been removed from src/etc. rc.network has been modified
to warn that host.conf is no longer used at boot time. In addition, if
there is a host.conf but no nsswitch.conf, the latter is created at boot
time from the former.
Obtained from: NetBSD
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.\" $NetBSD: nsswitch.conf.5,v 1.14 1999/03/17 20:19:47 garbled Exp $
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
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.\" by Luke Mewburn.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" This product includes software developed by Luke Mewburn.
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.Dd January 22, 1998
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.Dt NSSWITCH.CONF 5
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm nsswitch.conf
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.Nd name-service switch configuration file
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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file specifies how the
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.Xr nsdispatch 3
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(name-service switch dispatcher) routines in the C library should operate.
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.Pp
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The configuration file controls how a process looks up various databases
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containing information regarding hosts, users (passwords), groups, etc.
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Each database comes from a source (such as local files, DNS, and
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.Tn NIS ) ,
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and the order to look up the sources is specified in
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.Nm nsswitch.conf .
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.Pp
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Each entry in
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.Nm
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consists of a database name, and a space separated list of sources.
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Each source can have an optional trailing criterion that determines
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whether the next listed source is used, or the search terminates at
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the current source.
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Each criterion consists of one or more status codes, and actions to
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take if that status code occurs.
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.Ss Sources
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The following sources are implemented:
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.Bl -column "compat" -offset indent -compact
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.Sy Source Description
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.It files Local files, such as
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.Pa /etc/hosts ,
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and
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.Pa /etc/passwd .
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.It dns Internet Domain Name System.
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.Dq hosts
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and
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.Sq networks
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use
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.Sy IN
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class entries, all other databases use
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.Sy HS
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class (Hesiod) entries.
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.It nis NIS (formerly YP)
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.It compat support
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.Sq +/-
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in the
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.Dq passwd
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and
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.Dq group
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databases.
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If this is present, it must be the only source for that entry.
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.El
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.Ss Databases
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The following databases are used by the following C library functions:
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.Bl -column "networks" -offset indent -compact
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.Sy Database Used by
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.It group
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.Xr getgrent 3
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.It hosts
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.Xr gethostbyname 3
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.It networks
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.Xr getnetbyname 3
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.It passwd
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.Xr getpwent 3
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.It shells
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.Xr getusershell 3
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.El
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.Ss Status codes
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The following status codes are available:
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.Bl -column "tryagain" -offset indent -compact
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.Sy Status Description
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.It success The requested entry was found.
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.It notfound The entry is not present at this source.
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.It tryagain The source is busy, and may respond to retries.
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.It unavail The source is not responding, or entry is corrupt.
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.El
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.Ss Actions
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For each of the status codes, one of two actions is possible:
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.Bl -column "continue" -offset indent -compact
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.Sy Action Description
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.It continue Try the next source
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.It return Return with the current result
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.El
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.Ss Format of file
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A
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.Tn BNF
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description of the syntax of
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.Nm
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is:
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.Bl -column "<criterion>" -offset indent
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.It <entry> ::=
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<database> ":" [<source> [<criteria>]]*
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.It <criteria> ::=
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"[" <criterion>+ "]"
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.It <criterion> ::=
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<status> "=" <action>
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.It <status> ::=
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"success" | "notfound" | "unavail" | "tryagain"
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.It <action> ::=
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"return" | "continue"
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.El
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.Pp
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Each entry starts on a new line in the file.
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A
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.Sq #
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delimits a comment to end of line.
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Blank lines are ignored.
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A
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.Sq \e
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at the end of a line escapes the newline, and causes the next line to
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be a continuation of the current line.
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All entries are case-insensitive.
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.Pp
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The default criteria is to return on
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.Dq success ,
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and continue on anything else (i.e,
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.Li [success=return notfound=continue unavail=continue tryagain=continue]
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).
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.Ss Compat mode: +/- syntax
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In historical multi-source implementations, the
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.Sq +
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and
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.Sq -
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characters are used to specify the importing of user password and
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group information from
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.Tn NIS .
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Although
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.Nm
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provides alternative methods of accessing distributed sources such as
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.Tn NIS ,
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specifying a sole source of
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.Dq compat
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will provide the historical behaviour.
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.Pp
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An alternative source for the information accessed via
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.Sq +/-
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can be used by specifying
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.Dq passwd_compat: source .
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.Dq source
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in this case can be
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.Sq dns ,
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.Sq nis ,
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or
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any other source except for
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.Sq files
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and
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.Sq compat .
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.Ss Notes
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Historically, many of the databases had enumeration functions, often of
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the form
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.Fn getXXXent .
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These made sense when the databases were in local files, but don't make
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sense or have lesser relevance when there are possibly multiple sources,
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each of an unknown size.
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The interfaces are still provided for compatibility, but the source
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may not be able to provide complete entries, or duplicate entries may
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be retrieved if multiple sources that contain similar information are
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specified.
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.Pp
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To ensure compatibility with previous and current implementations, the
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.Dq compat
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source must appear alone for a given database.
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.Ss Default source lists
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If, for any reason,
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.Nm nsswitch.conf
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doesn't exist, or it has missing or corrupt entries,
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.Xr nsdispatch 3
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will default to an entry of
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.Dq files
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for the requested database.
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Exceptions are:
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.Bl -column passwd_compat "dns files" -offset indent
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.Sy Database Default source list
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.It group compat
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.It group_compat nis
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.It hosts dns files
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.It passwd compat
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.It passwd_compat nis
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.El
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /etc/nsswitch.conf -compact
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.It Pa /etc/nsswitch.conf
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The file
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.Nm
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resides in
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.Pa /etc .
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.El
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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To lookup hosts in
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.Pa /etc/hosts
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and then from the DNS, and lookup user information from
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.Tn NIS
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then files, use:
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.Bl -column "passwd:" -offset indent
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.It hosts: files dns
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.It passwd: nis [notfound=return] files
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.It group: nis [notfound=return] files
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.El
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.Pp
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The criteria
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.Dq [notfound=return]
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sets a policy of "if the user is notfound in nis, don't try files."
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This treats nis as the authoritive source of information, except
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when the server is down.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr nsdispatch 3 ,
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.Xr resolv.conf 5 ,
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.Xr named 8 ,
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.Xr ypbind 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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file format first appeared in
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.Fx 4.1 .
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It was imported from the
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.Nx
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Project, where it appeared first in
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.Nx 1.4 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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Luke Mewburn
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.Aq lukem@netbsd.org
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wrote this freely distributable name-service switch implementation,
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using ideas from the
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.Tn ULTRIX
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.Xr svc.conf 5
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and
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.Tn Solaris
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.Xr nsswitch.conf 4
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manual pages.
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