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* man: try to clarify that nss-mymachines does not provide name resolution ↵Lennart Poettering2021-05-261-0/+9
| | | | | | outside its own scope Fixes: #18229
* nss-systemd: synthesize NSS shadow/gshadow records from userdb, as wellLennart Poettering2021-05-081-1/+2
| | | | | | | This ensures we not only synthesize regular paswd/group records of userdb records, but shadow records as well. This should make sure that userdb can be used as comprehensive superset of the classic passwd/group/shadow/gshadow functionality.
* license: LGPL-2.1+ -> LGPL-2.1-or-laterYu Watanabe2020-11-091-1/+1
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* man: move 'files' module in NSS 'hosts:' line before myhostnameLennart Poettering2020-08-171-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | I am pretty sure /etc/hosts (i.e. an explicitly configured, local, trusted database) should be useful for overriding the automatic myhostname logic. resolved's internal logic handles it that way and hence we should suggest it in the NSS fallback line, too. Let's also bring the factory file back into sync with what the docs say. And update the prose a bit too, to actually match what we recommend.
* nss-mymachines: drop support for UID/GID resolvingLennart Poettering2020-07-141-40/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that we make the user/group name resolving available via userdb and thus nss-systemd, we do not need the UID/GID resolving support in nss-mymachines anymore. Let's drop it hence. We keep the module around, since besides UID/GID resolving it also does hostname resolving, which we care about. (One of those days we should replace that by some Varlink logic between nss-resolve/systemd-resolved.service too) The hooks are kept in the NSS module, but they do not resolve anything anymore, in order to keep compat at a maximum.
* tree-wide: fixes for assorted grammar and spelling issuesZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek2020-07-061-2/+1
| | | | Fixes #16363. Also includes some changes where I generalized the pattern.
* man: move "myhostname" right after "resolve"Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek2020-04-161-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | The text in the man page provides the justification why I think this is generally the right thing. An additional reason is that with the previous commit (to move resolved earlier), since resolved internally implements the same rules that nss-myhostname does, we'd have this strange inversion where the priority of external configuration would be different in the "resolve" path and in the fallback path.
* man: move "files" after "resolve" in the suggested configurationZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek2020-04-161-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | resolved caches files, so we should move nss-files after nss-resolve to speed up local access (and yes, people like to have thousands of lines in /etc/hosts). See https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LCX6YXLM62QEYJSOLJBWXXVXTZVL73GI/ for the background.
* meson: make nologin path build time configurableMichael Biebl2019-07-181-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | Some distros install nologin as /usr/sbin/nologin, others as /sbin/nologin. Since we can't really on merged-usr everywhere (where the path wouldn't matter), make the path build time configurable via -Dnologin-path=. Closes #13028
* man: use same header for all filesZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek2019-03-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | The "include" files had type "book" for some raeason. I don't think this is meaningful. Let's just use the same everywhere. $ perl -i -0pe 's^..DOCTYPE (book|refentry) PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.[25]//EN"\s+"http^<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"\n "http^gms' man/*.xml
* man: standarize on one-line license headerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek2019-03-141-4/+1
| | | | | | No need to waste space, and uniformity is good. $ perl -i -0pe 's|\n+<!--\s*SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1..\s*-->|\n<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+ -->|gms' man/*.xml
* man: add an extensive example to nss-mymachines(8)Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek2018-11-291-6/+78
| | | | | The man page didn't really say what we are mapping and with what patterns. Let's fix that.
* man,factory: update factory config for nsswitch.conf to match the man pagesZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek2018-11-271-0/+1
| | | | | Also add a note in the man pages to remind people to adjust the factory config and other man pages at the same time.
* meson: allow building resolved and machined without nss modulesYu Watanabe2018-07-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | This adds -Dnss-resolve= and -Dnss-mymachines= meson options. By using this option, e.g., resolved can be built without nss-resolve. When no nss modules are built, then test-nss is neither built. Also, This changes the option name -Dmyhostname= to -Dnss-myhostname= for consistency to other nss related options. Closes #9596.
* man: drop unused <authorgroup> tags from man sourcesZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek2018-06-141-9/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | Docbook styles required those to be present, even though the templates that we use did not show those names anywhere. But something changed semi-recently (I would suspect docbook templates, but there was only a minor version bump in recent years, and the changelog does not suggest anything related), and builds now work without those entries. Let's drop this dead weight. Tested with F26-F29, debian unstable. $ perl -i -0pe 's/\s*<authorgroup>.*<.authorgroup>//gms' man/*xml
* tree-wide: remove Lennart's copyright linesLennart Poettering2018-06-141-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship information.
* tree-wide: drop 'This file is part of systemd' blurbLennart Poettering2018-06-141-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together. Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to change bits that are part of our copyright header for that. hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a bit.
* tree-wide: drop license boilerplateZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek2018-04-061-13/+0
| | | | | | | | | | Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the extended header to avoid any doubt. I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
* Add SPDX license identifiers to man pagesZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek2017-11-191-0/+2
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* man: sync up the suggested nsswitch.conf configuration for our four NSS modulesLennart Poettering2016-10-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This unifies the suggested nsswitch.conf configuration for our four NSS modules to this: hosts: files mymachines resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] dns myhostname Note that this restores "myhostname" to the suggested configuration of nss-resolve for the time being, undoing 4484e1792b64b01614f04b7bde97bf019f601bf9. "myhostname" should probably be dropped eventually, but when we do this we should do it in full, and not only drop it from the suggested nsswitch.conf for one of the modules, but also drop it in source and stop referring to it altogether. Note that nss-resolve doesn't replace nss-myhostname in full: the former only works if D-Bus/resolved is available for resolving the local hostname, the latter works in all cases even if D-Bus or resolved are not in operation, hence there's some value in keeping the line as it is right now. Note that neither dns nor myhostname are considered at all with the above configuration unless the resolve module actually returns UNAVAIL. Thus, even though handling of local hostname resolving is implemented twice this way it is only executed once for each lookup.
* nss: add new "nss-systemd" NSS module for mapping dynamic usersLennart Poettering2016-07-221-2/+3
| | | | | With this NSS module all dynamic service users will be resolvable via NSS like any real user.
* man: change recommended order of NSS modules in /etc/nsswitch.confLennart Poettering2016-02-231-24/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | So far we recommended placing "nss-mymachines" after "nss-resolve" in the order of preference in /etc/nsswitch.conf. This change reverse this order. Rationale: single-label names are resolved via LLMNR by resolved, which has to time out if no peer by that name exists. By placing "nss-mymachines" first (which always responds immediately) we avoid running into this timeout for most containers. Both modules should return the same data if LLMNR is used by the container anyway. While we are at it, improve the man pages of the three NSS modules in other ways a bit.
* doc: use expanded forms for written styleJan Engelhardt2015-11-061-1/+1
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* doc: correct orthography, word forms and missing/extraneous wordsJan Engelhardt2015-11-061-1/+1
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* doc: correct punctuation and improve typography in documentationJan Engelhardt2015-11-061-4/+4
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* man: document nss-resolveLennart Poettering2015-08-261-1/+2
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* nss-mymachines: map userns users of containers to real user namesLennart Poettering2015-07-091-15/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Given a container "foo", that maps user id $UID to container user, using user namespaces, this NSS module extenstion will now map the $UID to a name "vu-foo-$TUID" for the translated UID $UID. Similar, userns groups are mapped to "vg-foo-$TGID" for translated GIDs of $GID. This simple change should make userns users more discoverable. Also, given that many tools like "adduser" check NSS before allocating a UID, should lower the chance of UID range conflicts between tools.
* man: revert dynamic paths for split-usr setupsTom Gundersen2015-06-181-4/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This did not really work out as we had hoped. Trying to do this upstream introduced several problems that probably makes it better suited as a downstream patch after all. At any rate, it is not releaseable in the current state, so we at least need to revert this before the release. * by adjusting the path to binaries, but not do the same thing to the search path we end up with inconsistent man-pages. Adjusting the search path too would be quite messy, and it is not at all obvious that this is worth the effort, but at any rate it would have to be done before we could ship this. * this means that distributed man-pages does not make sense as they depend on config options, and for better or worse we are still distributing man pages, so that is something that definitely needs sorting out before we could ship with this patch. * we have long held that split-usr is only minimally supported in order to boot, and something we hope will eventually go away. So before we start adding even more magic/effort in order to make this work nicely, we should probably question if it makes sense at all.
* man: generate configured paths in manpagesFilipe Brandenburger2015-05-281-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In particular, use /lib/systemd instead of /usr/lib/systemd in distributions like Debian which still have not adopted a /usr merge setup. Use XML entities from man/custom-entities.ent to replace configured paths while doing XSLT processing of the original XML files. There was precedent of some files (such as systemd.generator.xml) which were already using this approach. This addresses most of the (manual) fixes from this patch: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/tree/debian/patches/Fix-paths-in-man-pages.patch?h=experimental-220 The idea of using generic XML entities was presented here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-May/032240.html This patch solves almost all the issues, with the exception of: - Path to /bin/mount and /bin/umount. - Generic statements about preference of /lib over /etc. These will be handled separately by follow up patches. Tested: - With default configure settings, ran "make install" to two separate directories and compared the output to confirm they matched exactly. - Used a set of configure flags including $CONFFLAGS from Debian: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/tree/debian/rules Installed the tree and confirmed the paths use /lib/systemd instead of /usr/lib/systemd and that no other unexpected differences exist. - Confirmed that `make distcheck` still passes.
* Reindent man pages to 2chZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek2015-02-031-83/+79
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* man: document nss-mymachinesLennart Poettering2015-01-071-0/+116