fix spelos and tyops. document networks and group defaults

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lukem 1999-01-20 03:03:25 +00:00
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.\" $NetBSD: nsswitch.conf.5,v 1.8 1999/01/19 08:28:03 lukem Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: nsswitch.conf.5,v 1.9 1999/01/20 03:03:25 lukem Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.\" TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE
.\" USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.Dd January 16, 1998
.Dd January 20, 1998
.Dt NSSWITCH.CONF 5
.Os NetBSD
.Sh NAME
@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ The configuration file controls how a process looks up various databases
containing information regarding hosts, users (passwords), groups,
netgroups, etc.
Each database comes from a source (such as local files, DNS, and
.Tn NIS ),
.Tn NIS ) ,
and the order to look up the sources is specified in
.Nm nsswitch.conf .
.Pp
@ -70,12 +70,14 @@ and
.Pa /etc/passwd .
.It dns Internet Domain Name System.
.Dq hosts
uses
and
.Sq networks
use
.Sy IN
class entries, all other databases use
.Sy HS
class (Hesiod) entries.
.It nis NIS (formally YP)
.It nis NIS (formerly YP)
.It compat support
.Sq +/-
in the
@ -92,10 +94,11 @@ The following databases are used by the following C library functions:
.It group
.Xr getpwent 3
.It hosts
.Xr gethostbyname 3 ,
.Xr gethostbyaddr 3
.Xr gethostbyname 3
.It netgroup
.Xr getnetgrent 3
.It networks
.Xr getnetbyname 3
.It passwd
.Xr getpwent 3
.It shells
@ -107,8 +110,8 @@ The following status codes are available:
.Sy Status Description
.It success The requested entry was found.
.It notfound The entry is not present at this source.
.It unavail The source is not responding, or entry is corrupt.
.It tryagain The source is busy, and may respond to retries.
.It unavail The source is not responding, or entry is corrupt.
.El
.Ss Actions
For each of the status codes, one of two actions is possible:
@ -157,7 +160,7 @@ In historical multi-source implementations, the
.Sq +
and
.Sq -
characters are used to signify the importing of user password and
characters are used to specify the importing of user password and
group information from
.Tn NIS .
Although
@ -208,6 +211,8 @@ Exceptions are:
.Bd -
.Bl -column passwd_compat "dns files" -offset indent
.Sy Database Default source list
.It group compat
.It group_compat nis
.It hosts dns files
.It passwd compat
.It passwd_compat nis
@ -237,16 +242,6 @@ The criteria
sets a policy of "if the user is notfound in nis, don't try files."
This treats nis as the authoritive source of information, except
when the server is down.
.Pp
If the older-style "+/-" syntax for
.Pa /etc/passwd
is required, use:
.Bl -column "passwd_compat:" -offset indent
.It passwd: compat
.It group: compat
.It passwd_compat: nis
.It group_compat: nis
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr nsdispatch 3 ,
.Xr resolv.conf 5 ,