docs: link info about static user/group drop-in files from the relevant specs

2021-05-10 14:59:26 +02:00
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@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ expose. Or in other words, it both allows applications to efficiently query
 user/group records from local services, and allows local subsystems to provide
 user/group records efficiently to local applications.

+The concepts described here define an IPC interface. Alternatively, user/group
+records may be dropped in number of drop-in directories as files where they are
+picked up in addition to the users/groups defined by this IPC logic. See
+[`nss-systemd(8)`](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/nss-systemd.html)
+for details.
+
 This simple API only exposes only three method calls, and requires only a small
 subset of the Varlink functionality.