Re: Problems with user recognition?

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From: Nick Holloway
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 00:00

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richard@r-senior.demon.co.uk (Richard Senior) writes:
> For most applications and utilities I expect this is just a simple lookup
> in /etc/passwd using the getpwent system call. Did you take off world read
> permissions on /etc/passwd?

At least SuSE and Redhat appear to use nscd (Name Service Cache Daemon)
by default, and so lookups go via this daemon.  This makes it a little
more complicated to diagnose.

I've seen problems with this daemon where lookups get cached far too
long (positive and negative), so newly created users do not show up,
or changes to the DNS are not seen.

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