Re: How to use Guix with sssd, not nscd, on a foreign distro?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

> Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> The Guix manual recommends running nscd:
>>
>> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Application-Setup.html
>>
>> However, Fedora intends to remove it:
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RemoveNSCD
>
> D’oh!  This is bad.  It might suggest that nscd will vanish from glibc
> as well, given it’s partly developed by the same group of people.

Carlos O’Donell (of glibc) was kind enough to start a discussion
explaining why this is a concern for Guix (and Nix and others) and
proposing possible ways forward:

  https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2022-February/136741.html

continued:

  https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2022-March/thread.html#136745

Ludo’.