https://github.com/netauth/localizer

A tool to make your NetAuth accounts local
https://github.com/netauth/localizer

identity netauth shadow-database

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A tool to make your NetAuth accounts local

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/netauth/localizer
• Owner: netauth
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-04-12T05:49:03.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-10-01T23:14:27.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-20T17:45:24.898Z (about 2 years ago)
• Topics: identity, netauth, shadow-database
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 85 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# NetAuth Localizer

The localizer is a component of the NetAuth stack which directly

manages `passwd`, `group`, and `shadow` databases.  The service edits

these files periodically to add and remove users and groups that are

above the threshold of an optional cutoff specified by an

administrator, by default UIDs and GIDs greater than 2000.

## Why not NSS?

NSS is shockingly difficult to work with, and surprisingly buggy

internally.  Its also not available in a meaningful way outside of

glibc, which limits its usefulness.  Furthuremore, NSS uses shared

modules which have to be loaded into a program's address space, or

otherwise loaded by some persistent process on the system.  This makes

it cumbersome ti isolate security domains with potentially every

application on the system needing to load NSS modules.