man/nss-mymachines.xml

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<refentry id="nss-mymachines" conditional='ENABLE_MACHINED'>

  <refentryinfo>
    <title>nss-mymachines</title>
    <productname>systemd</productname>

    <authorgroup>
      <author>
        <contrib>Developer</contrib>
        <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
        <surname>Poettering</surname>
        <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
      </author>
    </authorgroup>
  </refentryinfo>

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>nss-mymachines</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>nss-mymachines</refname>
    <refname>libnss_mymachines.so.2</refname>
    <refpurpose>Provide hostname resolution for local
    container instances.</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <para><filename>libnss_mymachines.so.2</filename></para>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>

    <para><command>nss-mymachines</command> is a plug-in module for the GNU Name Service Switch (NSS) functionality of
    the GNU C Library (<command>glibc</command>), providing hostname resolution for the names of containers running
    locally that are registered with
    <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machined.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.  The
    container names are resolved to the IP addresses of the specific container, ordered by their scope. This
    functionality only applies to containers using network namespacing.</para>

    <para>The module also resolves user and group IDs used by containers to user and group names indicating the
    container name, and back. This functionality only applies to containers using user namespacing.</para>

    <para>To activate the NSS module, add <literal>mymachines</literal> to the lines starting with
    <literal>hosts:</literal>, <literal>passwd:</literal> and <literal>group:</literal> in
    <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename>.</para>

    <para>It is recommended to place <literal>mymachines</literal> after the <literal>files</literal> or
    <literal>compat</literal> entry of the <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> lines to make sure that its mappings
    are preferred over other resolvers such as DNS, but so that <filename>/etc/hosts</filename>,
    <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and <filename>/etc/group</filename> based mappings take precedence.</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Example</title>

    <para>Here is an example <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> file that enables
    <command>nss-mymachines</command> correctly:</para>

    <programlisting>passwd:         compat <command>mymachines</command>
group:          compat <command>mymachines</command>
shadow:         compat

hosts:          files <command>mymachines</command> resolve myhostname
networks:       files

protocols:      db files
services:       db files
ethers:         db files
rpc:            db files

netgroup:       nis</programlisting>

  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>See Also</title>
    <para>
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machined.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>nss-resolve</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>nss-myhostname</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>nsswitch.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>getent</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
    </para>
  </refsect1>

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