<para><command>systemd-userdbd</command> is a system service that multiplexes user/group lookups to all
local services that provide JSON user/group record definitions to the system. In addition it synthesizes
JSON user/group records from classic UNIX/glibc NSS user/group records in order to provide full backwards
- compatibility. It may also pick up statically defined JSON user/group records from drop-in files in
+ compatibility. It may also pick up statically defined JSON user/group records from files in
<filename>/etc/userdb/</filename>, <filename>/run/userdb/</filename>,
- <filename>/run/host/userdb/</filename> and <filename>/usr/lib/userdb/</filename>.</para>
+ <filename>/run/host/userdb/</filename> and <filename>/usr/lib/userdb/</filename> with the
+ <literal>.user</literal> extension.</para>
<para>Most of <command>systemd-userdbd</command>'s functionality is accessible through the
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>userdbctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>