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Lots of people are playing with the new container runtime tools that run containers as non root, like Podman and Buildah.
These tools take advantage of the /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid files provided by shadow-utils and updated via useradd for managing extra uids to be used by the user within containers.
A lot of people using these tools want to be able to destribute the content in these files the same way they do for content in /etc/passwd.
Basically they want to have nsswitch support for them.
(In reply to Daniel Walsh from comment #6)
> I added the text, I attempted to update the Wiki, but it would not allow me
> to edit a new page.
I missed this comment. Are you talking about the glibc wiki?
Please have a look at this:
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I've commented on this upstream again, summarizing the past comments and adding my own reflection on the design direction:
https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/issues/154#issuecomment-571415244
Next week I'm going to close this issue as CLOSED/UPSTREAM, as something we can track upstream. RHEL would inherit a choice made and designed upstream. We would reopen a new bug to backport a solution from upstream (which may not be in glibc).