[gentoo-dev] nss_* and system users

[Mike Kelly]

Hi,

As part of my original plans for my GLEP27 implementation, I was
going to have my scripts automatically add the users requested by a
package (for example, the cron user), to all the passwd backends
listsed in /etc/nsswitch.conf. However, in consultation with some
folks, it seems that what may be more desirable is to just add
users/groups to the local files/compat backends instead, and not make
any changes to the remote databases.

Does anyone have any strong notion of any cases where it would be
excessively bad for the package manager to try adding to, say, the
nss_nis backend in addition to the nss_files backend, or cases where
that would be a strongly desired behavior?

-- 
Mike Kelly