Having additional examples in /usr/share/examples/etc would also be nice. (Ideally, with a comment in /etc/nsswitch.conf.example pointing to those additional examples.)
At the very least, a copy of the default nsswitch.conf should be in the examples directory. Since I didn't find an example there, I figured the facility was either not fully implemented yet, or broken (otherwise an example would be there). That's the reason I asked on the list in the first place. Since I'm pretty experienced with FreeBSD and it confused me, you can be sure it will confuse others.
I do find Ruslan's logic here a bit peculiar, though. Having an nsswitch.conf with the default settings should only "slow things down" by the time needed to parse the file. Well-written parsers are very fast.
I also feel that the logic that this will "slow things down" is a red herring. For many of the common cases (i.e. host name resolution by a remote DNS server) the amount of time to parse the nsswitch.conf will be minuscule relative to the amount of time necessary for to perform the lookup.
I would love to know how much overhead parsing the nsswitch.conf adds to a local password lookup.
Richard Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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