As I understand it the getent tool is used to query the Name Service Switch. In the getent man file all the different entries (plus a few more) from nsswitch.conf is listed, except the publickey one. And indeed, if I try getent publickey foo I the error is Unknown database: publickey
In the nsswitch.conf man page the publickey entry is described as:
Public and secret keys for Secure_RPC used by NFS and NIS+.
The GNU docs on the subject don't really clear anything up. They just say that publickey is among databases that will be "added later."
I tried installing the os nis package, but still can't find any clues to or examples of how this nss entry is supposed to be used.
I am running Archlinux 5.2.10 glibc 2.29
