Ticket #1073 (new enhancement)
getent passwd_nonlocal should work
| Reported by: | geofft | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | insignificant | Milestone: | The Distant Future |
| Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
| Upstream bug: |
Description
It would be nice if nss_nonlocal provided a wrapper around getent (or a reimplementation of it) that returned raw nonlocal results if you did getent passwd_nonlocal geofft, without doing nss_nonlocal's filtering and without returning any local results.
(Or equivalently, if NSS_LOCAL_IGNORE=1 getent passwd geofft worked.)
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A getent_nonlocal binary would be possible with a bit of refactoring, but do you have a use case for it that hesinfo couldn’t satisfy?
NSS_LOCAL_IGNORE can’t really work: nss_nonlocal isn’t loaded in a position where it has the ability to cause local users to disappear, and I don’t really want to give it that ability.