nscd on Foreign Distro

nscd on Foreign Distro

[Andres Moreno]

Hi!

I installed Guix on Fedora 38 using a package in the COPR Fedora
repository. Everything seems to be working great except that I found out
that nscd is deprecated for Fedora. The manual states that this service
needs to be enabled or else the system might crash. Is this still an issue?

I did some web searches; messages posted around the time of the Fedora
deprecation of nscd did not point a clear path forward.

Should I worry?

Thanks! afm

Re: nscd on Foreign Distro

[kiasoc5]

Hi Andres,

On 2023-10-09 02:37, Andres Moreno wrote:
> 
> I installed Guix on Fedora 38 using a package in the COPR Fedora
> repository. Everything seems to be working great except that I found 
> out
> that nscd is deprecated for Fedora. The manual states that this service
> needs to be enabled or else the system might crash. Is this still an 
> issue?
> 
> I did some web searches; messages posted around the time of the Fedora
> deprecation of nscd did not point a clear path forward.
> 
> Should I worry?

n=1, but I've run Guix on Arch Linux without nscd for several months and 
had no apparent issues.

In fact, nscd was recently removed from Arch Linux, so alternatives to 
nscd should be mentioned if something like nscd is still required. For 
example I believe sssd was floated as a nscd replacement at some point.

nssd on foreign distro

[Quiliro Ordonez]

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/guix.html#Name-Service-Switch-1
says we must install nss. I have done:
guix package -i nss
on my common user. But I do not know how to start the service. Is this
package really necessary? If it is, must it be on root and not on a
normal user? Or should it be installed from the foreign distro's repos?

nscd on foreign distro

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hola Quiliro,

Quiliro Ordonez <quiliro@riseup.net> skribis:

> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/guix.html#Name-Service-Switch-1
> says we must install nss. I have done:

Note that it says you must install nscd (part of the GNU C Library), not
“nss”, and you must install it from your host distro.

If you’re using Debian or a derivative, you’ll have to run:

  sudo apt-get install nscd

and that’s it.

HTH!

Ludo’.