Re: getent results under nss-pam-ldapd

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

On Thu, 2024-08-22 at 01:42 +0000, Glalonde25 wrote:
> When I run "getent passwd user2" given "user2" is both define as a
> local account and also defined in the ldap, the command only returns
> one row with the details from the local passwd file. Is this the
> correct behavior?

I'm pretty sure a qualified getent passwd something lookup is expected
to return only one result (also happens when you add two entries to
/etc/passwd). It should use getpwnam() under the hood which only
returns one entry.

Both the user name and numeric uid are expected to be unique in a lot
of places and first match usually wins. This is especially true if you
have something like nscd running which caches these kind of lookups and
only remembers one entry.

Kind regards,

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