Hi, I did use the ldapsearch and here is what I found out
ldapsearch "ldapserver" returned 1586 users /etc/passwd has 38 users nsswitch.conf passwd: files ldap So sometimes I assume getent returns files (38) + ldap (1586) = 1624 But mostly getent only returns 1038 Sizelimit on the ldap server is set to 5000 Can it be that sometimes only 1000 users gets returned from the getent ldap search? And if so, why? /Jocke On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 14:55, Prentice Bisbal <[email protected]> wrote: > Jocke M wrote: > > Hello, > > > > We are running an OpenLDAP server on RHEL4 and I just found out that > > running getent on the RHEL clients sometimes missed users against the > > OpenLDAP server. > > > > Example: > > getent passwd | wc -l > > 1038 > > > > getent passwd | wc -l > > 1624 > > > > Does anyone know what can be faulty, either on the clients or the server? > > > > -- > > Thx > > Jocke > > Did those results occur on the same client, or are those results from > two different clients? > > If two different clients are returning different results, I'd compare > the /etc/ldap.conf and /etc/openldap/ldap.conf files first. It could be > that one has a different filter criteria than the other. Or, if you've > recently upgraded your LDAP servers, one client could still be point to > an old LDAP server that doesn't have new entries. > > Try using the ldapsearch command with the same search criteria and see > if you get the same results. I would use the -h or -H switch to make > sure you are using the server you think you are using (change specifics > accordingly) > > ldapsearch -LLL -h yourldapserver.example.com -b dc=example,dc=com > "objectClass=posixAccount" dn > > -- > Prentice > -- Mvh Jocke
