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services.nscd.config

Configuration to use for Name Service Cache Daemon. Only used in case glibc-nscd is used.

Declarations
Type
strings concatenated with "\n"
Default
''
  # We basically use nscd as a proxy for forwarding nss requests to appropriate
  # nss modules, as we run nscd with LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to the directory
  # containing all such modules
  # Note that we can not use `enable-cache no` As this will actually cause nscd
  # to just reject the nss requests it receives, which then causes glibc to
  # fallback to trying to handle the request by itself. Which won't work as glibc
  # is not aware of the path in which the nss modules live.  As a workaround, we
  # have `enable-cache yes` with an explicit ttl of 0
  server-user             nscd
  
  enable-cache            passwd          yes
  positive-time-to-live   passwd          0
  negative-time-to-live   passwd          0
  shared                  passwd          yes
  
  enable-cache            group           yes
  positive-time-to-live   group           0
  negative-time-to-live   group           0
  shared                  group           yes
  
  enable-cache            netgroup        yes
  positive-time-to-live   netgroup        0
  negative-time-to-live   netgroup        0
  shared                  netgroup        yes
  
  enable-cache            hosts           yes
  positive-time-to-live   hosts           0
  negative-time-to-live   hosts           0
  shared                  hosts           yes
  
  enable-cache            services        yes
  positive-time-to-live   services        0
  negative-time-to-live   services        0
  shared                  services        yes
''