Re: authselect: what to do with systemd and nss-mdns that modify nsswith.conf

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* Lennart Poettering:

> On Do, 06.12.18 14:58, Pavel Březina (pbrezina@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>
>> > Then there is nss-mymachines. It's primarily useful if
>> > systemd-machined or systemd-nspawn is used. Given that those are now
>> > part of the 'systemd-container' RPM it would be OK to also add
>> > nss-mymachines to nsswitch.conf only when the RPM is installed, if
>> > there's a concept for that. That said, in order to simplify things,
>> > and given that systemd is a very core part of the OS I'd personally
>> > just put it statically in nsswitch.conf too by default. After all a
>> > missing NSS module listed in nsswitch.conf is just skipped, hence this
>> > should not matter. This module should be in the 'passwd', 'group' and
>> > 'hosts' lines.
>>
>> Reading https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284325 there is can
>> happen some ID overlaps with FreeIPA/Samba which is undesirable. I would say
>> that this must be solves if this module is enabled by default. Was there any
>> progress in this area?
>
> I think that's a misunderstanding of what the module does. At the
> point the module announces those uid/gid ranges they are already
> reserved, hence the conflict is already there. nss-mymachines is hence
> only the messanger, not the culprit.

I don't think we enforce that reservation system-wide.  Do we filter out
those accounts when they come in over LDAP?  Can users add them locally
using adduser?

None of the NSS modules in glibc provide such filtering.

Thanks,
Florian
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