In the last episode (Sep 16), Doug Sampson said:
> > PAM only handles authentication during login; looking up user/group
> > names is handled by NSS. If your nsswitch.conf has "passwd: compat
> > winbind" in it, you have a /usr/local/lib/nss_winbind.so.1 file, and
> > getent can't find users that
> Yes, that getent command should suffice for printing users and groups,
> including any NSS-provided ones. You can also use the 'id'
> or 'pw user
> show' commands to print similar info.
aries-root@/usr/local/etc: pw group show DSP-PRODUCTION
pw: unknown group `DSP-PRODUCTION'
aries-root@/usr/l
In the last episode (Sep 16), Doug Sampson said:
> > FreeBSD doesn't come with a getent program. I was able to compile
> > OpenSolaris' getent on FreeBSD with minimal problems, though. You'll
> > have to remove support for ipnodes, project, and netmasks since those
> > are Solaris-specific, remov
> FreeBSD doesn't come with a getent program. I was able to compile
> OpenSolaris' getent on FreeBSD with minimal problems, though. You'll
> have to remove support for ipnodes, project, and netmasks since those
> are Solaris-specific, remove the gettext code, and you'll need to
> provide a "putpw
In the last episode (Sep 16), Doug Sampson said:
> > That email is referring to the getent command inside the linux
> > /compat tree. If you need that command to work, you will need to
> > install and set up the appropriate *linux* libraries and files into
> > /compat/linux/ . If this is your only
> That email is referring to the getent command inside the linux /compat
> tree. If you need that command to work, you will need to install and
> set up the appropriate *linux* libraries and files into
> /compat/linux/ .
> If this is your only problem, I'd recommend just not running linuxes
> get
In the last episode (Sep 16), Doug Sampson said:
> I posted this to the Samba list yesterday and since this is related
> to FreeBSD I thought I'd post to this list. Can anyone shed some
> light on the 'getent' command in FreeBSD 5.4? It isn't working and
> I'd like to know if it's because it's base
