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From: Tomas Halman <thalman@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 13:45:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 48/57] doc: Add nsswitch.conf note to manpage

We want to add note about nsswitch.conf configuration
into sssd-files manpage.

Resolves:
https://pagure.io/SSSD/sssd/issue/3750

Reviewed-by: Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Stephenson <jstephen@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 0be037bbedd0aed6a7eccead6aabe0d07258242a)
---
 src/man/sssd-files.5.xml | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/man/sssd-files.5.xml b/src/man/sssd-files.5.xml
index 59e1b652328b6548386d9e15938db38197ad2a92..067e21949ffe10d783cc305c57c0ae57c906f899 100644
--- a/src/man/sssd-files.5.xml
+++ b/src/man/sssd-files.5.xml
@@ -51,6 +51,27 @@
                 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
             </citerefentry>.
         </para>
+        <para>
+            Another reason is to provide efficient caching of local users and groups.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+            Please note that some distributions enable the files domain automatically,
+            prepending the domain before any explicitly configured domains.
+            See enable_files_domain in
+            <citerefentry>
+                <refentrytitle>sssd.conf</refentrytitle>
+                <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
+            </citerefentry>.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+            SSSD never handles resolution of user/group "root". Also resolution of
+            UID/GID 0 is not handled by SSSD. Such requests are passed to next
+            NSS module (usually files).
+        </para>
+        <para>
+            When SSSD is not running or responding, nss_sss returns the UNAVAIL code
+            which causes the request to be passed to the next module.
+        </para>
     </refsect1>
 
     <refsect1 id='configuration-options'>
@@ -110,11 +131,22 @@
 <programlisting>
 [domain/files]
 id_provider = files
+</programlisting>
+        </para>
+        <para>
+            To leverage caching of local users and groups by SSSD
+            nss_sss module must be listed before nss_files module
+            in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+<programlisting>
+passwd:     sss files
+group:      sss files
 </programlisting>
         </para>
     </refsect1>
 
-	<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="include/seealso.xml" />
+        <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="include/seealso.xml" />
 
 </refentry>
 </reference>
-- 
2.14.4