Why can&#x27;t nscd support those other NSS modules too? (Even if it doesn&#x27;t work with them at present, could it not be extended to do so?)<p>Rather than having NSS plugins loaded into every process which needs name services, why not centralise all name services in a daemon (whether nscd or sssd or something else)? Then client processes don&#x27;t need to actually load the NSS code into their own address space, they can just speak a simple protocol over IPC to access this functionality out-of-process.