[OpenIndiana-discuss] nsswitch.conf

[Till Wegmüller]

Hi

In Illumos based systems smf configuration did not happen as much as in
Solaris. Due to the fact that solaris closed before the change was
complete in the open-source base.


I Usually have no problem manually editing nsswitch.conf. However I
usually copy nsswitch.dns to nsswitch.conf and nothing more. But it
never reverted after reboot.

That behaviour is most probably caused by a service. There are multiple
ones that edit nsswitch.conf or copy the dns version in place.

My gueses for the culprit are "svc:/network/service:default" and nwam.

For NWAM make sure you are using "svc:/network/physical:default" instead
of "svc:/network/physical:nwam" otherwise nwam fingers into stuff you
might not want.

for "svc:/network/service:default" have a look at the start script and
see what the shellscript accepts as modified nsswitch so it does not
overwrite your changes.


Hope this helps.
Greetings
Till

On 8/24/18 2:49 PM, Carsten John wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I'm running hipster on a test setup and can't get changes to nsswitch.conf get honored (need to get winbind for passwd and groups inton it).
> 
> In Oracle 11.3 the nsswitch is managed via svccfg, but the service name-service/switch seems not to be present in hipster.
> 
> Any manual change to nsswitch.conf is ignored and revertes in the file after reboot.
> 
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thx
> 
> Carsten
> 
>