Don’t use entire /etc/nsswitch.conf file #2975
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The default nsswitch.conf(5) file in most distros can handle many different things including host name, user names, groups, etc. In Nix, we want to limit the amount of impurities that come from these things. As a result, we should only allow nss to be used for gethostbyname(3) and getservent(3). /cc @Ericson2314
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A specific issue is that when fetching a private repo, OpenSSH will end up using nscds which gets the unboxed user with uid 1000 rather than For reference, on NixOS that line today is: |
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We do need to rebuild the daemon to test this, so don't merge before that! |
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mymachines and myhostname should not be necessary. |
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The default nsswitch.conf(5) file in most distros can handle many
different things including host name, user names, groups, etc. In Nix,
we want to limit the amount of impurities that come from these things.
As a result, we should only allow nss to be used for gethostbyname(3)
and getservent(3).
/cc @Ericson2314