nssd on foreign distro

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’.

Re: nssd on foreign distro

[Gábor Boskovits]

Hello,

Quiliro Ordonez <quiliro@riseup.net> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. nov. 4.,
V, 17:13):
>
> 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?
>

You should install this from the foreign distro's repo. Package name is
most probably something like nscd.

Best regards,
g_bor