Bug 19020
Summary: | RFE: nsswitch.conf does not correspond to a declared configuration | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Michal Jaegermann <michal> |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin> |
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.3 | CC: | dr, nalin |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | alpha | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
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Last Closed: | 2001-06-04 17:03:13 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Michal Jaegermann
2000-10-13 04:31:28 UTC
Hmmm ... here are the entries from a minimal install (no NIS). Which entries cause problems for which configurations? passwd: files nisplus nis shadow: files nisplus nis group: files nisplus nis hosts: files nisplus nis dns bootparams: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files ethers: files netmasks: files networks: files protocols: files nisplus nis rpc: files services: files nisplus nis netgroup: files nisplus nis publickey: nisplus automount: files nisplus nis aliases: files nisplus I don't see the harm in this configuration ... if nis is not present, any db queries should fall back gracefully ... from another point of view, though, it makes sense to not have the nis option listed in the file (even if it does no harm!) ... so I will change this to an enhancement request ... we'll address this in a future release ... thanks for your report! > if nis is not present, any db queries should fall back gracefully ...
In theory you are right but in practice this does not seem to always happen. :-)
I heard from a number of people where a network was getting really confused
in a presence of those extra entries. You may be right that bugs were elsewhere
and hacking /etc/nsswitch.conf only papers over the real problems. OTOH
this was never really easy to catch in action but editing this configuration
file was usually clearing the troubles.
Any ideas Nalin? Still awaiting a response,.... No longer, we explicitly specify --disablenis when calling authconfig now if you're not using NIS which will remove the line from the nsswitch.conf |