On 11/13/2015 02:14 PM, Nikola Forró wrote: > This is not mentioned anywhere. Users can assume that the file being read > is something like /etc/$DATABASE, but that's not always the case. It's better > to explicitly specify which file is read for each respective database. > The list of files was acquired from glibc source code. Thanks, Nikola. Applied. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Nikola Forró <nforro@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > man5/nsswitch.conf.5 | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/man5/nsswitch.conf.5 b/man5/nsswitch.conf.5 > index 33b1c64..c990733 100644 > --- a/man5/nsswitch.conf.5 > +++ b/man5/nsswitch.conf.5 > @@ -330,6 +330,52 @@ implements "nis" source. > implements "nisplus" source. > .PD > .RE > +.LP > +The following files are read when "files" source is specified > +for respective databases: > +.RS 4 > +.TP 12 > +.PD 0 > +.B aliases > +.I /etc/aliases > +.TP > +.B ethers > +.I /etc/ethers > +.TP > +.B group > +.I /etc/group > +.TP > +.B hosts > +.I /etc/hosts > +.TP > +.B initgroups > +.I /etc/group > +.TP > +.B netgroup > +.I /etc/netgroup > +.TP > +.B networks > +.I /etc/networks > +.TP > +.B passwd > +.I /etc/passwd > +.TP > +.B protocols > +.I /etc/protocols > +.TP > +.B publickey > +.I /etc/publickey > +.TP > +.B rpc > +.I /etc/rpc > +.TP > +.B services > +.I /etc/services > +.TP > +.B shadow > +.I /etc/shadow > +.PD > +.RE > .SH NOTES > Within each process that uses > .BR nsswitch.conf , > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
