On May 27 09:59, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2019-05-27 03:15, Maayan Apelboim wrote: > > I have a server in the domain (duplicated from another domain if it > > matters). > > At first "getent passwd" run I see the user from the different domain, but > > after a few runs it disappears. > > Even after it disappears getent doesn't return all domain users while > > mkpasswd -d returns all users. > > When I try to chown user /home/user I get "invalid user" error - but this > > user exists in the domain. > > After a few restarts to the server or logging with the user the problem is > > solved. > > But I don't have a constant work around that works smoothly. > > Systems may have tens to hundreds of local user accounts, and domains > may have hundreds to hundreds of thousands of user accounts. The > system probably caches only active users, and getent enumerates those > if no /etc/passwd file exists, as it was designed to enumerate only a > few entries from local files. As it is, getent will not even > enumerate hosts from the local hosts files or resolver.
Pointing to the user's guide which actually explains why this happens: https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch-enum The user's guide! Probably the most unread document of all times... ;) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer
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