On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 09:26:52PM +1000, paul sorenson wrote:
> > If getent(1) is returning results that are not found via getpwnam(3),
> > your C-library or nsswitch are broken. Trace the system calls made by
> > "postmap -q" and "getent" and see if anything interesting turns up.
>
> Thanks for your help - the problem is solved. Tracing through postmap,
> libnss_ldap.so was not found. Closer inspection revealed that this was
> a 32 bit postfix package installed on a 64 bit system so it didn't look
> in /usr/lib64.
So all 32-bit executables have a non-working getpwnam(3), when LDAP is
involved. This is broken, the solution is to install a 32-bit libnss_ldap.so,
you should not need a 64-bit Postfix (nothing wrong with 64-bit Postfix
of course, but it solves only part of the problem).
--
Viktor.
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