Re: Removing systemd from Buster: everything gets slow

[Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 07:39:08PM +0000, Brian wrote:
> I've never seen anything systemd related in /etc/nsswitch.conf. How does
> it get there?

wooledg:~$ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality.
# If you have the `glibc-doc-reference' and `info' packages installed, try:
# `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file.

passwd:         compat systemd
group:          compat systemd
shadow:         compat
gshadow:        files

hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns
networks:       files

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

netgroup:       nis


Based on previous messages in this thread, it's placed there by the
postinstall script of libnss-systemd.