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2 title: User/Group Record Lookup API via Varlink
8 # User/Group Record Lookup API via Varlink
12 local system may be queried with a [Varlink](https://varlink.org/) API. This
29 subset of the Varlink functionality.
31 ## Why Varlink?
34 mechanisms described by [Varlink](https://varlink.org/). The choice of
35 preferring Varlink over D-Bus and other IPCs in this context was made for three
58 supposed to implement this API, and offer its interfaces on a Varlink
64 instead. (Alternatively a special Varlink service is available,
112 Note that these services currently implement a subset of Varlink only. For
140 provided. When using the Varlink API, lookups into databases provided only via
141 NSS (and not natively via Varlink) are handled by the
144 synthesize NSS records for users/groups natively defined via a Varlink
149 between offering them via an NSS module or via a this Varlink API, either way