FYI: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2022-02/msg00263.html
Sorry for the top post; I'm not on my usual computer. On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 12:51 PM Christopher Batten <cbat...@cornell.edu> wrote: > > Hmmm ... this made me think that running both was not a great idea? > > > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/system-level_authentication_guide/usingnscd-sssd > > But I am not an expert on any of this :) I guess the key is to just make > sure you only enable caching for hosts in /etc/nscd.conf? > > Best, > Chris > > > On Jul 27, 2022, at 8:44 AM, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> wrote: > > > > > > Hi Christopher, > > > >> Turns out we are using SSSD not NCSD on our Linux systems. It seems to > be working fine: > > > > You will need to run NSCD if you want Guix software to be able to talk > > to the system’s SSSD. The reason is that SSSD works by having > > applications load a library whereas NSCD implements a network protocol. > > Software built with Guix cannot load the system libary due to ABI > > conflict, but it *can* talk to NSCD over the network. > > > > The system NSCD talks to the system SSSD, so there’s no problem there. > > > > -- > > Ricardo > >
