Description of problem: `realm join` added some options to /etc/nsswitch.conf. I tried to look them up with `man nsswitch.conf` and `info nsswitch.conf` to no avail. They are not explained. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ rpm -qf /usr/share/man/man5/nsswitch.conf.5.gz man-pages-4.09-3.fc26.noarch How reproducible: 100% and easy Steps to Reproduce: 1.man nsswitch.conf Actual results: Options not listed are: -at passwd: 'sss' and 'systemd' -at hosts: 'myhostname' Expected results: Add description to documentation for said options. Additional info: Maybe more options are missing. The upstream version is affected: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/nsswitch.conf.5.html
See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1517403
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There has been a minor improvement in FC30 (a comment added in /etc/nsswitch.conf for sss) but the problem essentially persists in FC30.
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The man page says: On systems with additional libraries installed, you may have access to further services such as "hesiod", "ldap", "winbind", and "wins". Are you suggesting it should include the 3 mentioned services in those examples? "myhostname" is documented in nss-myhostname(8), "systemd" in nss-systemd(8), I don't see a man page documenting the "sss" service, but that should be reported to sssd, not man-pages.
> Are you suggesting it should include the 3 mentioned services in those examples? That would OK if '"myhostname" is documented in nss-myhostname(8), "systemd" in nss-systemd(8)' is included somehow. "/usr/share/man/man8/nss-systemd.8.gz" and "/usr/share/man/man8/nss-myhostname.8.gz" are provided by systemd package. > I don't see a man page documenting the "sss" service, but that should be reported to sssd, not man-pages. Due to your comment I found a hint in `man sssd-files`. In EXAMPLE section you can read: > To leverage caching of local users and groups by SSSD nss_sss module > must be listed before nss_files module in /etc/nsswitch.conf. > > passwd: sss files > group: sss files Indeed, "man nss-sss" does not exist. I filed: https://github.com/SSSD/sssd/issues/6704
My original problem was that the file /etc/nsswitch.conf had inconsistent info. And that in many cases manuals (man XXX) were either not clear or nonexistent for /etc/nsswitch.conf related options. It seems a lot of good work has been done. The /etc/nsswitch.conf distributed with, FC37, authselect-libs-1.4.2-1.fc37.x86_64 is quite good in terms of information that points people in the right direction. I've not had time to delve into all the manuals but I think that the info in /etc/nsswitch.conf does now gives sufficient pointers & info. Sadly one day some smarter person that us will consider those comments redundant & remove them causing future suffering, but let's hope not. Certainly if we are to follow the Unix philosophy man pages should exist for options in /etc/nsswitch.conf unless documented elsewhere & relatively easily found.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 39 development cycle. Changing version to 39.