A way of expressing nsswitch.conf configurations declaratively.
Currently this module has support for EL based Linux distributions, Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu, and Gentoo. This module by default will create a basic nsswitch.conf that uses defaults derived from what the distribution uses in the nsswitch.conf file on fresh install. These defaults have been verified on the mentioned distributions by the kindness and diligence of contributors, of which I'm very grateful.
See REFERENCE.md for full API details.
This is the class by which you will manage the nsswitch.conf file. There is one parameter per standard database NSS supports. The class accepts both strings and arrays as parameters. The benefit being, you could possibly merge an array of options with hiera. When using an array, each element should be the lookup service followed by the reaction statement.
Available parameters are:
- passwd
- group
- shadow
- hosts
- bootparams
- aliases
- automount
- ethers
- netgroup
- netmasks
- network
- protocols
- publickey
- rpc
- services
- shells
- sudo
For more information on NSS, please see the man pages. man 5 nsswitch.conf
# defaults only
include nsswitch
# setting a simple lookup
class { 'nsswitch':
publickey => 'nis',
}
# 'hosts' lookups contain a reaction statement for the 'dns' service
class { 'nsswitch':
passwd => ['ldap','files'],
hosts => ['dns [!UNAVAIL=return]','files'],
}# This file is controlled by Puppet
passwd: files
shadow: files
group: files
hosts: files dns
bootparams: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
ethers: files
netmasks: files
networks: files
protocols: files
rpc: files
services: files
netgroup: nisplus
publickey: nisplus
automount: files nisplus
aliases: files nisplus
Puppet-nsswitch has been maintained by VoxPupuli since version 3.0.0. It was migrated from https://forge.puppet.com/modules/trlinkin/nsswitch. It is licensed under the Apache-2 license.
