getent

Question 1

getent

Answer 1

The getent command displays entries from databases supported by the Name Service Switch libraries, which are configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf.

Question 2

getent

• i, –no-idn, Disable IDN encoding.
• s, –service=CONFIG, Service configuration to be used.

–usage, Give a short usage message.

Answer 2

Supported databases:

ahosts, ahostsv4, ahostsb6, aliases, ethers, group, gshadow, hosts, initgroups, netgroup, networks, passwd, protocols, rpc, services, shadow