From 42b92ad5b26ebbc7c387aa7111f70c74b63cd84f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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>
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2.14.4