Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: userexists in combination with ldap (AD) Author: sauer Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23355,23358#msg-23358
tuibelgium Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does the function "userexists" checks users in AD > with LDAP? The userexists function uses either the return of getpwuid() or getpwnam() (depending on whether the argument is a string or number) to determine if a user exists on the system. Those calls will use whatever database is configured in the system's user lookup mechanism - LAM on AIX or NSS on pretty much every other less messed-up Unix variant. :) So, if your system is configured to support AD-based users, the function should see them. If you just want to check local /etc/passwd, you'll need to use something like the countlinesmatching or readstringarray functions to directly read lines from /etc/passwd. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
