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nsswitch.conf.5: Add list of files being read when "files" service is used
authorNikola Forró <nforro@redhat.com>
Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:14:32 +0000 (14:14 +0100)
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Wed, 2 Dec 2015 19:38:54 +0000 (20:38 +0100)
commit2e8536833c8a8145fceaae78b5aa133c2b05fca0
treecf4e4d4f18eb9169f31d1fb215ee4a3145f90a19
parent25fe569385e40614d7d2051e648cc34476dd4768
nsswitch.conf.5: Add list of files being read when "files" service is used

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.

Signed-off-by: Nikola Forró <nforro@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
man5/nsswitch.conf.5