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nsss

  • nsss vs musl-nscd
  • nsss is only useful for multiple nsswitch backends for hosts that deal with multiple LDAP backends which almost always use glibc
  • lh-bootstrap uses nsss
  • skarnet intentionally does not mention nsss as an optional dependency for utmps, this is their reason:
It's kinda intentional, because I wanted to keep the documentation as simple as possible - this is a simple and very low-level piece of software, but susceptible to be used by any person running musl - no need to confuse them with an option that would only ever be used by a distribution switching entirely to nsss.


People who build a distribution with nsss would know to enable the option on utmps.


It's not very important, but until nsss gets more widespread, I think the statu quo is better.
  • Should nsss also be added as a runtime dependency?

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