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note new defaults for hosts, passwd, and passwd_compat

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lukem 1999-01-19 08:26:14 +00:00
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.\" $NetBSD: nsswitch.conf.5,v 1.6 1999/01/18 12:12:05 lukem Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: nsswitch.conf.5,v 1.7 1999/01/19 08:26:14 lukem Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@ -52,13 +52,6 @@ Each database comes from a source (such as local files, DNS, and
and the order to look up the sources is specified in
.Nm nsswitch.conf .
.Pp
If, for any reason, if the file doesn't exist, or has missing or corrupt
entries,
.Xr nsdispatch 3
will default to an entry of
.Sq files
for the requested database.
.Pp
Each entry in
.Nm
consists of a database name, and a space separated list of sources.
@ -203,6 +196,22 @@ specified.
To ensure compatibility with previous and current implementations, the
.Dq compat
source must appear alone for a given database.
.Ss Default source lists
.Pp
If, for any reason,
.Nm nsswitch.conf
doesn't exist, or it has missing or corrupt entries, it
will default to an entry of
.Sq files
for the requested database.
Exceptions are:
.Bd -
.Bl -column passwd_compat "dns files" -offset indent
.Sy Database Default source list
.It hosts dns files
.It passwd compat
.It passwd_compat nis
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /etc/nsswitch.conf -compact
.It Pa /etc/nsswitch.conf