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From: Stef Bon <stefbon@gmail.com>
To: libc-help@sourceware.org
Subject: Howto determine a shared/network source of users and groups is active?
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:40:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANXojcwngshK5GsswWLOo8UKX__8eFs7a5bCa9B9RnS3rfL+-g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi all,

I hope you are all doing ok.

I'm working on a service based on SSH connections and SFTP file transfer.
To make the name and/or id translation work I'm looking for a way the
user and group databases are shared between server and client. If so,
it is very easy.
If not I have to create a mapping.

I can write an utility which
scans every line in /etc/nsswitch.conf and test for words like ldap in
the line starting with passwd: and group: (and also for sss).
If found test it's working and also active on the server.
Maybe you see, this is a lot of work, and testing of all kinds of possibilities.
Is there a simpler way to do that? To get an unique id per user/group
database or something like that.

Thanks in advance,

S.J. Bon

             reply	other threads:[~2022-09-22 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-22 13:40 Stef Bon [this message]
2022-09-23  5:14 ` Florian Weimer
2022-09-23  7:18   ` Stef Bon
2022-09-23  7:54     ` Florian Weimer
2022-10-05 17:28       ` Stef Bon

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