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On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 18:48 +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 04:44:17PM +0000, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: |
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> > I wonder if it would be possible to use the script from sys-apps/getent(included below) |
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> > to impl. getent in user.eclass instead of using glibc's getent? I |
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> > cannot see any downside, is there one? |
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> > This would help a lot(just seed your groups/users is in ROOT/etc/{passwd,group ...} first) |
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> > when cross building or ROOT != / as it would be trivial for the script to respect ROOT/EPREFIX |
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> This would totally break when those services come from an NSS provider |
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> other than files or compat. |
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But does user.eclass support anything but local system users ? |
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> There was a non-upstream patch to support NSS on non-root filesystems, |
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> which would probably help a lot more; I haven't seen that original patch |
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> in a while, so here's a very quick and completely untested |
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> re-implementation of it. |
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> In your case, you probably should MAKE sure that regardless of the |
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> system nsswitch settings, the NSS file provider gets used. |
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> Usage: NSS_FILES_ROOT=$ROOT/etc getent -s files passwd ... |
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