On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernl...@transmode.se> wrote: > I wonder if it would be possible to use the script from > sys-apps/getent(included below) > to impl. getent in user.eclass instead of using glibc's getent? I cannot see > any downside, is there one? >
glibc's getent can get data from any NSS plugin (ie. LDAP, MySQL, etc). Switching to use sys-apps/getent would mean that lookups would only be performed against the local flat files.
