question about authselect

I recently ran
	sudo authselect select -f local
to resolve an issue. It fixed that.

Some time later I started having problems with name resolution in Firefox (and others).

It took me a while to relate the first failure with the preceding authselect command (a few minutes earlier).
I now see that many files were probably affected, not just the desired /etc/pam.d/postlogin file.

Looking at the earlier situation (in backup) there were no data files in /etc/authselect. I see that I manually edited nsswitch.conf
a while back to resolve some issue (I forget).

But now I see copies of many configuration files in /etc/authselect, probably from the 'select local'. There were none earlier.
These look like copies of the same files in /etc.

This file (nsswitch.conf) was now overwritten and my modification was lost. Re-applying it solved the name resolution issue.
Interestingly, my manual change to /etc/nsswitch.conf is also in /etc/authselect/nsswitch.conf now.
Oh, this is now a symlink.

I thought that I should learn how to correctly use authselect to manage the system.

Suppose I want to make a change in, say, nsswitch.conf. How do I properly do it such that authselect stays in the loop?
Just edit the file manually, or is some magic needed?

Regards

-- 
Eyal at Home ([email protected])

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