[Nix-dev] getent LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[Rickard Nilsson]

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10 dec 2012 kl. 16:47 skrev Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com>:

> 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...

I *do* use nscd, but getent is not querying nscd when it does a passwd listing. As I said it goes directly to nsswitch.conf then. If you run 'getent passwd user' it talks to nscd. You can ser this with strace.

/ Rickard

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