Thank you Stephen, really helps me your answer.

2016-11-21 14:13 GMT+02:00 Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com>:

> On 11/21/2016 05:01 AM, Catalin wrote:
> > I'm not skilled with this config files of networking.
> > I want to know more about how is working this file.
>
> This file lists the possible sources of user/group/host/etc. data that the
> system may wish to use. In the case of 'sss', it is opportunistic. What
> that
> means is that if SSSD has been configured, the system will use it. If it is
> unconfigured (the default configuration), then the 'sss' lookup will just
> be
> skipped.
>
>
> > I saw this can activate some dns settings - but this is not the main
> issue.
>
> I don't know what you mean by this. If SSSD is configured, it might make
> DNS
> requests, but so can any other service on your system.
>
> > Why is that sss word put into default file?
>
> It's there to work around a number of really old, poor design decisions in
> POSIX. (Specifically that the nsswitch.conf file is only ever read once
> when a
> process linked to glibc starts up and cannot be refreshed). The problem
> was that
> if anyone enrolled a system with a central user repository like LDAP,
> FreeIPA or
> Active Directory, processes on the system would still be unable to access
> those
> accounts until after a reboot.
>
> > How can I improve my Fedora security?
>
> That is a topic that is far beyond the scope of this thread.
>
> > I used into internet rarely and most of new config files is new for me.
>
> If you don't know what this does, why are you trying to change it (rather
> than
> trusting that the OS developers made the decision carefully).
>
>
>
>
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