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by jcelerier 2520 days ago
> IIRC NSS (/etc/nsswitch.conf etc.) needs dynamic linking for anything beyond the basic files backend. But, again IIRC, musl has never supported NSS anyway so that's kind of a moot point.

I frankly have never ever ever seen anyone actually configure NSS outside of the defaults.
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georgyo 2520 days ago
You have never been in an organization that has used ldap or other user backends then.

However even the defaults on Debian and Centos are affected here, as it means that the dynamic user/host stuff in systemd also won't get picked up when something doesn't read nsswitch

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arianvanp 2519 days ago
It's needed for Bonjour/avahi/mdns.

It's also needed for systemd dynamic users.

If you have either of those, you will have an /etc/nsswitch.conf that requires dynamic linking :)

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