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The feature has been implemented upstream in commit

  commit 56f5e92e3d595597fe8568d9198333f9b988c88f
  Author: Andrea Bolognani <abologna>
  Date:   Fri Aug 5 17:09:27 2022 +0200

    profiles: Add with-libvirt feature
    
    The libvirt NSS plugins can be used to conveniently connect to
    VMs running on the system.
    
    See https://libvirt.org/nss.html for additional information.
    
    Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna>

  1.4.0-4-g56f5e92

and it would be great to have it in RHEL 9 as well.

Please consider backporting it :)

Actually sssd and winbind profiles do not handle hosts database in rhel, so there is nothing to backport. Closing as notabug.

(In reply to Pavel Březina from comment #2)
> Actually sssd and winbind profiles do not handle hosts database in rhel, so
> there is nothing to backport. Closing as notabug.

So the recommended way to enable the libvirt NSS module in RHEL 9
would still be to go through user-nsswitch.conf, as was the case for
Fedora 35, right? [1] seems to confirm this.

If that's the case, I agree that nothing needs to happen on the RHEL
side.


[1] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html-single/configuring_authentication_and_authorization_in_rhel/index#modifying-a-ready-made-authselect-profile_configuring-user-authentication-using-authselect

Yes, this is correct.