Bug#649265: provide coordinated mechanism to manage /etc/nsswitch.conf among packages

[أحمد المحمودي <aelmahmoudy@users.sourceforge.net>]

On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:42:30 -0700 "C.J. Adams-Collier" <cjac@uw.edu> wrote:
> I spoke with Steve Langasek on irc a few moments ago after reviewing
> this bug.  He informs me that there is still not a coordinated way to
> manage /etc/nsswitch.conf.

There is a package in Ubuntu called 'auth-client-config' [1] which does that.
For example, when I wanted to add authentication using OpenLDAP, I just 
ran this command after installing libnss_ldap & so:

auth-client-config -t nss -p lac_ldap

[1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/auth-client-config

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