Re: Can't retrieve specific users/groups

[Arthur de Jong <arthur [at] arthurdejong.org>]

On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 17:16 +1100, Matthew Cengia wrote:
> When I use 'getent passwd' and grep for a particular user, or use
> 'getent group' and grep for a particular group, the user/group I expect
> appears, but when I 'getent passwd username' or 'getent group
> groupname', I get no results back.
> 
> Can you please take a stab at what I'm doing wrong?

It could be that nscd is running and has non-existence of the user
cached. Run nscd -i passwd and nscd -i group to clear the caches (or
stop it altogether which is a good idea when debugging).

To get a little more detail on what is happening, you could run nslcd in
debug mode (start it manually with the -d option) and watch the output
when a getent command runs.

Hope this helps,

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