Questions tagged [getent]
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Random DNS errors after change to nsswitch.conf
I recently installed my EPSON L3150 printer's drivers and about the same time I started having weird (and random) DNS name resolution errors in some applications (ssh, nextcloud-client), that I can ...
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List of Users - RHEL
I want to get list of users - both human and machine who have access to the unix server. OS is:
NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server"
VERSION="7.9 (Maipo)"
I tried cat /etc/...
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Why does getent default to .station if no TLD is specified?
With my current setup, I have a dnsmasq instance operating on my home server (Void Linux) and 3 GNU/Linux devices that use it as default dns (1 Manjaro, 1 Arch, 1 Linux Mint 20.1).
Due to seemingly ...
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Why are there two root and nobody accounts according to "getent passwd"?
The output further down was retrieved by employing machinectl on a Ubuntu 20.04 host:
machinectl pull-tar https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/focal/current/focal-server-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.xz focal
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Groups from LDAP: "getent" reports membership correctly but missing in output of "id"
I have a Debian 10 machine which uses PAM LDAP for authentication. In LDAP I have two users alice and bob which are both members of group mygroup. Everything has worked fine (so the configuration ...
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User listed in group but not in getent passwd
On a specific machine with both local users and LDAP users, there is a user that is listed under getent group foo (let's say the user jdoe is listed), but when doing getent passwd jdoe I get no output....
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Usage details of ahostsv4 in linux
There is a term called ahostsv4 in the Linux documentation of man getent. What is the usage of it?
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Inconsistency between “getent group” and “getent group <groupname>” – why?
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How is the following possible?
$ getent group | grep docker
$ getent group docker
docker:x:600:
Note that the first call doesn’t return anything while the second one does.
grpck doesn’t ...
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What must be added to nsswitch.conf to show AD users and groups?
This is a follow-up to this question.
I have a CentOS 7 machine which has joined a domain FOOBAR. It is possible to successfully get info about users stored in the AD via
id user@FOOBAR.GLOBAL
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find user name through full name / gecos field?
Given a system where the user data comes from e.g. an OpenLDAP database and is not in the /etc/passwd file.
Is it possible to search through the getent passwd database and look up the user id/name by ...
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getent passwd -s sss LOCALUSER shows local user
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I want to easily and quickly tell if a user is local or domain (don't care which domain).
Environment
freeipa-client-4.6.1-3.fc27.x86_64
sssd-1.16.0-4.fc27.x86_64
Full story
I am writing a ...
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libnss-pgsql2 - getent group fails
i have set up pam and nss on a linux server (ubuntu 16.04) to get users and groups from a remote postgresql database. Login on the server is fine, but groups can not be loaded out of the database.
If ...
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Linux getent automount?
I just got a user account on a server with its nsswitch pointing at ldap.
Something is wrong with my home folder (I don't have one).
Generally the home folders are mounted by automount/autofs and ...
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SSSD list allowed users only
We are using SSSD for authentication using LDAP. And I filter the user access using simple_allow_groups as follows:
access_provider = simple
simple_allow_groups = Computer Admins
(Note: Computer ...
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getent hosts not using DNS
I'm using Ubuntu workstation (14.04), using OpenLDAP for authentication. The /etc/nsswitch.conf files on these look like this so that to get a host it should try files, then LDAP and then go on to ...
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getent shadow shows password hashes for some users
If I execute
sudo getent shadow
I see password hashes for all the local users who have them. For most of the LDAP accounts I only see * in the password field. However, for a few LDAP users, I see ...
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Remove ldap user
Trying to remove a user with userdel xyz I get:
no crontab for xyz
userdel: cannot remove entry 'xyz' from /etc/passwd
So I executed getent passwd xyz and a record is returned. I thought that this ...
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command to get username via id
There is a command id to get the user id. E.g. id -u rootgives me 0. Is there an opposite command to get the user name via the id?
I know I can grep /etc/passwdor run getent and awk or cutthe result. ...
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read files directly VS getent
In various shell scripts I often see two approaches for getting information from databases supported by Name Service Switch libraries like /etc/group, /etc/hosts or /etc/services. One is getent ...
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getent passwd does not return AD users Centos 7 SSSD
I'm used to joining windows 2008 r2 AD with Krb5.conf/ldap.conf/smb.conf and pam.d/authconfig_ac and being able to list users with
getent passwd
but after joining a centos 7 system I can logon fine, ...
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getent hosts prints IPv6, getent ahosts prints IPv4
Verbatim output from my terminal:
$ getent hosts example.org
2001:500:88:200::10 example.org
$ getent ahosts example.org
192.0.43.10 STREAM 43-10.any.icann.org
192.0.43.10 DGRAM
192.0.43.10 ...
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