On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 11:53:14AM -0700, Rich McClellan wrote:
> The point made by Gooch, and an *extremely* good one because we want Linux
> to behave like the other Unices out there, is that the file nsswitch.conf
> should specify the behavior of map lookups, not some ad hoc check for a
> file.
Okay, I'm probably just being very dense, but I'm having trouble figuring
out how a single line in nsswitch.conf is going to work if you're using
multiple mount directories.
For example, say I've set up automounting on both /home and /mnt. The
auto.master map looks like this:
/mnt /etc/auto.mnt --timeout 60
/home/devel yp:auto.home --timeout 60
Unless you're just talking about deciding which auto.master map to look in
first, I can't see how the automount: line in nsswitch.conf can be of any
use here.
And if you're looking at both (which I think we all agree is a good thing),
the only place the order makes a difference is if the maps conflict, and
the only good reason to set up a workstation this way is to make entries in
the local file override the NIS map's entries ("files nis"). Otherwise,
you wouldn't bother putting them in the local file in the first place.
Nalin
