[Bug nscd/489] nscd problem with multiple passwd databases

[mhaverkamp at kcp dot com]

------- Additional Comments From mhaverkamp at kcp dot com  2004-10-28 19:30 -------
I expected that the response would be like that.  I understand the principal of
what you are saying and why you are saying it.  I occasionally have a need to
override the data in the shared password database (ldap) locally on 1 or 2
exceptional system with a local entry in /etc/passwd.  This works without
problems without nscd, but nscd occasionally gets its cache mixed up by this.

I argue that this is incorrect behavior because /etc/nsswitch.conf defines an
order in which databases are consulted.  Allowing data from the second listed
database to override data from the first listed database is therefor incorrect.

I leave this bug as "RESOLVED INVALID" because I am sure that it will just be
closed again anyway, but I want to be know that this functionality is both
important and useful to me, and it provides something that I can not achieve any
other way.  I am sure that there are others who have this need also.

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http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=489

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