[Nix-dev] getent LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 10/12/12 16:39, Rickard Nilsson wrote:

> I investigated an issue I have with getent, where LDAP entries don't show  
> up when I run 'getent passwd'. It turns out, in that case, getent reads  
> /etc/nsswitch.conf, finds "passwd: files ldap", loads libnss_files.so  
> (from glibc), prints the local users, and then tries to load  
> libnss_ldap.so from glibc. But since I use the nslcd daemon (nixos option  
> users.ldap.daemon.enable), that nss module is provided by the  
> nss-pam-ldapd package which is not in getent's LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Therefore,  
> no LDAP users are listed by getent.

Which is why, on NixOS, you *have* to use nscd...

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