On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 9:09:12 AM UTC-5, krish wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:28 PM, pattryn <patt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Nope. > > > > Curiously it works if I enable the nscd daemon but it's not very > reliable > > and I would prefer not to use it. > > > > > nscd is kinda required to read your passwd database and such.
Not so. Nscd is an entirely optional service. Many people don't use it. Some Linux distros don't even install it by default. > AFAIK, > puppet relies on it to read if a user/group exist <-- Can someone > re-confirm? :) > No, because that's not true either. How Puppet determines which users and groups exist depends on which User and Group "providers" are chosen, which depends on the OS and the available tools, but nscd is not relevant -- it doesn't operate at the level of the system tools Puppet uses. John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/GPJ3lsd21tAJ. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
