diff --git a/man/systemd-userdbd.service.xml b/man/systemd-userdbd.service.xml
index a65d1909be..fbbc740040 100644
--- a/man/systemd-userdbd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-userdbd.service.xml
@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@
systemd-userdbd is a system service that multiplexes user/group lookups to all
local services that provide JSON user/group record definitions to the system. In addition it synthesizes
JSON user/group records from classic UNIX/glibc NSS user/group records in order to provide full backwards
- compatibility.
+ compatibility. It may also pick up statically defined JSON user/group records from drop-in files in
+ /etc/userdb/, /run/userdb/,
+ /run/host/userdb/ and /use/lib/userdb/.
Most of systemd-userdbd's functionality is accessible through the
userdbctl1
@@ -45,16 +47,18 @@
multiplexes access other services implementing this API, too. It is thus both server and client of this
API.
- This service provides two distinct Varlink services:
+ This service provides three distinct Varlink services:
io.systemd.Multiplexer provides a single, unified API for querying JSON user and
group records. Internally it talks to all other user/group record services running on the system in
parallel and forwards any information discovered. This simplifies clients substantially since they need
to talk to a single service only instead of all of them in
- parallel. io.systemd.NameServiceSwitch provides compatibility with classic UNIX/glibc
- NSS user records, i.e. converts struct passwd and struct group records as
- acquired with APIs such as getpwnam1 to JSON
- user/group records, thus hiding the differences between the services as much as possible.
+ parallel. io.systemd.NameServiceSwitch provides compatibility with classic
+ UNIX/glibc NSS user records, i.e. converts struct passwd and struct group
+ records as acquired with APIs such as getpwnam1 to
+ JSON user/group records, thus hiding the differences between the services as much as
+ possible. io.systemd.Dropin makes JSON user/group records from the aforementioned
+ drop-in directories available.