[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#988087: shadow: subid ranges sourced from the network store / support for nsswitch

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 10:32:28AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Source: shadow
> Version: 1:4.8.1-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: upstream
> Forwarded: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/issues/154
> X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org
> 
> Hi
> 
> This is not Debian specific, but decided to fill the bugreport to make
> aware of interest of such support. This raised in at least 
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1715195 and upstream in
> https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/issues/154 which has now an
> implementation as
> https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/commit/8492dee6632e340dee76eee895c3e30877bebf45
> .

The initial support for this should be included in the new upstream
version 4.9.

Regards,
Salvatore