At 16:10 -0700 1999-01-09, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Russell Coker wrote:> If a system contains a nsswitch.conf file similar to the snippet I've included > below then would it be possible for utilities such as adduser, passwd, and vipw > to run appropriate makedb commands to keep the database in sync? Or is there> something wrong with desiring this type of functionality?My question is: Does this work? And if it does work then what is the 'db' file called?
/var/db/<database>.db, recent libc6 packages have /var/db/Makefile which contains rules to create the db files from the text versions.
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