[sparks-discuss] Active Directory name service module (nss_ad) [PSARC/2008/441 FastTrack timeout 07/18/2008]

[Nicolas Williams]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 04:07:16PM -0700, Gary Winiger wrote:
> 	Hummm, looking at the architecture of passwd(1), it only
> 	supports 2 repositories.  I suspect this is left over from some

The question is:  Is this architecture?  Where is it written that
passwd(1) has/must have this limitation?  If it isn't a stated
limitation then we'll simply fix this bug, otherwise we'll simply change
that limitation.

passwd(1) says:

     When a user has a password stored in one of  the  name  ser-
     vices  as  well  as  a local files entry, the passwd command
     updates both. It is possible to have different passwords  in
     the  name  service  and  local files entry. Use passwd -r to
     change a specific password repository.

I don't think that implies a limit of two name service backends for the
passwd database.