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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dealing with foreign distros without nscd
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 12:03:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wo1jnl2u.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87blivrtxy.fsf@inria.fr>


Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> writes:

> The workaround I found is to add ‘sssd’ to the pack, like so:
>
>   guix pack -RR -S /lib=lib -S /bin=bin sssd guile
>
> That way, on the other machine, you can set LD_LIBRARY_PATH such that
> Guix’ libnss_sss.so gets loaded:
>
>   tar xf /path/to/pack.tgz
>   LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD/lib ./bin/guile -c '(pk (getpw (getuid)))'
>
> It works!  However, if people have ideas of less arcane workarounds, I’m
> interested.

Interesting!  I wonder if this really is a general solution or if it
only works under special circumstances (like the cluster node using sssd
already).  Will, for example, accounts that are managed via Active
Directory / LDAP be visible if all we do is preload the Guix sssd
libraries?

-- 
Ricardo


  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-28 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-28  9:38 Dealing with foreign distros without nscd Ludovic Courtès
2020-08-28 10:03 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2020-08-29 10:07   ` Ludovic Courtès

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