I have a machine with PAM using LDAP. Some old users do not disappear from:
* getent passwd
But, they are not in:
* /etc/passwd or
* LDAP
Where are they?
Any idea?
Please, I am affraid of ghost. :-(
TIA
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4 thoughts on - Zombie Users In CentOS6
Usually when you use LDAP for NSS you have a caching daemon to cut down on the number of round trips and latency (every time you need to map a userID to a name requires a call to LDAP) so maybe your cache is not expiring the old entries yet. NSCD which comes with GLIBC is a common cache, otherwise SSSD or WINBIND are also commonly used. Restarting your cache should help.
Hi,
thank you.
Looking for more information, I get this:
# service nscd status nscd is stopped
# service sssd status sssd is stopped
# service winbind status winbindd is stopped
:-(
Is there any hope?
TIA
Hi, I think you are looking for nslcd, not nscd on C6.
4 thoughts on - Zombie Users In CentOS6
Usually when you use LDAP for NSS you have a caching daemon to cut down on the number of round trips and latency (every time you need to map a userID to a name requires a call to LDAP) so maybe your cache is not expiring the old entries yet. NSCD which comes with GLIBC is a common cache, otherwise SSSD or WINBIND are also commonly used. Restarting your cache should help.
Hi,
thank you.
Looking for more information, I get this:
# service nscd status nscd is stopped
# service sssd status sssd is stopped
# service winbind status winbindd is stopped
:-(
Is there any hope?
TIA
Hi, I think you are looking for nslcd, not nscd on C6.
Regards, Martin
It is solved.
Thank you.
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Cosme Faria Corrêa