Hi Ludovic, Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.cour...@inria.fr> writes:
> Hello Guix! > > Distros are increasingly relying on sssd, in particular Fedora and > derivatives, as a replacement for nscd, which is either unavailable or > deprecated. The documented interface of Guix binaries to the host’s > name service switch (NSS) is currently nscd: > > > https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Application-Setup.html#Name-Service-Switch > > If sssd becomes dominant, we > might just as well arrange to have NSS always load libnss_sss.so. > > Thoughts? With nscd removed from glibc, can't we assume foreign distributions will rely on sssd instead? Do I understand correctly that the above (configuring NSS to always load libnss_sss.so) would be a fine replacement for our use of nscd? If so, that seems the simplest/best option to pursue to me. -- Thanks, Maxim
