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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 13:20:23 +0100
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
To: Jesse Hathaway <jesse@...ki-mvuki.org>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>, Arjun Shankar
<arjun@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Plans to remove nscd in Fedora
* Jesse Hathaway:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 8:29 AM Carlos O'Donell <carlos@...hat.com> wrote:
>> My opinion is that we want something much thinner than nscd to provide
>> NSS for statically linked applications, and that such an interface
>> should not provide caching. If we really wanted we could keep the nscd
>> socket interface but implement an NSS daemon for this e.g. nssd that would
>> just run all the time and could be depended upon by static applications.
>> It would have to be well audited and very simple.
>>
>> The caching that nscd does has many legacy problems that are better solved
>> and maintained by other daemons that implement a split NSS module approach
>> (as Florian notes).
>
> Given the increasing prevalence of statically deployed programs from
> languages such as C, Go, Rust, and even Haskell. I would love to see
> continued distribution support for querying NSS from these
> programs. An nscd variant without caching seems like a good approach,
> but I think it would be unfortunate to remove nscd from distributions
> before an alternative approach was available.
But Go and Haskell are really old by now, and nscd support hasn't landed
in those language run-times (and their de-facto default
implementations). After ten to thrity years of waiting, is it still
reasonable to expect that this might happen.
Even for C, there is no push to make nscd a mandatory installation
requirement once the system uses services beyond the “dns” and “files”
modules. I would have expected to see a development in this direction
by now there as well. It's not just that we have turned down such
requests, they did not even happen.
I suspect it's just that users that have large databases under /etc or
require on remote integration have little interest in static linking and
vice versa.
An added complication is that a model involving a separate daemon does
not work well for containers.
Thanks,
Florian
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