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regarding useradd creates local-only users on nis server
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Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.1.1-6
If I try to create a new user account using a command
line like
useradd -c "John User" -b /home -m -g users john
then john becomes a local-only user, even though the host
to run useradd is the master NIS server. The new /etc/passwd
looks like this:
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/bin/sh
bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/bin/sh
sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/bin/sh
:
:
nagios:x:108:112::/var/log/nagios:/bin/false
john:x:55004:100:John User:/home/john:/bin/bash
+admin1::::::
+admin2::::::
+:*:::::/etc/NoShell
guest:x:501:65534:Guest Account:/home/guest:/bin/bash
admin1:x:502:0:Admin1:/home/admin1:/bin/bash
admin2:x:503:0:Admin2:/home/admin2:/bin/bash
user1:x:1001:100:Erich User:/home/erich:/bin/bash
:
:
usern:x:1111:100:Charly User:/home/charly:/bin/bash
The new user "john" is added _before_ the first NIS compat entry,
instead of being appended to passwd. /var/yp/Makefile ignores
anything before the compat entries, i.e. John got a local account
on our NIS server only. This is not useful.
Regards
Harri
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On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:25:14AM -0800, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> I don't believe this is attributable to NIS, but a more generalized
> problem (and I would expect the general problem to effect current
> versions of the passwd package too).
>
> I'm running into a similar sort of difficulty here, except the package
> I've got interacting in a bad way is libnss-db. Mainly, `useradd` doesn't
> get the user/group DBs rebuilt when adding users/groups.
>
> This will almost certainly be a problem for any of the NSS modules that
> change where users/groups are stored or their formats. Looking at the
> list of packages, this will almost certainly effect anyone who has one
> or more of: libnss-db, libnss-extrausers, libnss-ldap, libnss-ldapd,
> libnss-mysql, libnss-mysql-bg, libnss-pgsql2, or libnss3-1d packages
> installed.
>
> I'm unsure whether this is a flaw in `useradd`; or whether this is a
> fault with libpam/libnss for not defining APIs to modify entries, in
> addition to retrieving them.
I agree that this is not a bug in useradd/userdel/..., which are
tools to manage the "local password database", which were
specifically means /etc/{passwd,shadow,group,gshadow}.
Chris
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