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[Henry B. Hotz]

How does "whatever makes the symlinks" get notified when the nsswitch data changes?

On Jun 12, 2012, at 1:44 PM, Nico Williams wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Henry B. Hotz <hotz at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>> I disagree with using symlinks to bypass /etc/nsswitch.  The whole point of storing user information in e.g. LDAP is so you can centrally manage things like username->UID mapping.  If the central repository for that information changes then you need to update *all* instances of how the local machine uses it.
> 
> There's no bypass.  Whatever makes the symlinks does it based on
> nsswitch data :)

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