On Friday 07 October 2005 12:47, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: > John H Terpstra wrote: > > On Friday 07 October 2005 07:32, Scott Mayo wrote: > >> I have a samba server setup with LDAP. Before I was using LDAP, I could > >> get a list of users and groups with my perl script by using the getgrent > >> and getpwent routines. I cannot use this anymore, because for some > >> reason, these routines do not see all of my users. They only see up to > >> a certain point. If I do a 'getent passwd' from the command line, it > >> only shows up to certain number of users. The others are there though > >> and they work fine. > >> > >> IE: I created the user 'johnsonz' as one of my last users. If I do a > >> 'gentent passwd | grep johnsonz', then I do not see this user anywhere > >> at all, but if I do 'id johnsonz', it shows his information. > >> > >> Anyone have any ideas why this would happen? Everything seems to be > > > > Update to a more recent version of nss_ldap. It is available from > > http://www.padl.com. > > John, > > Just out of curiousity, what in this post make you think that > an update nss_ldap would solve the problem? Have you experienced > this bug ? Just curious.
I helped Scott with his set up originally. The version of nss_ldap I pointed Scott at has a bug that is fixed in later release. It causes the exact symptoms he reported. I have had to update to nss_ldap 242 in a number of sites to fix this same problem. - John T. > > Off hand I would probably be more apt to point at a corrupted > index in the slapd database. > > > > > > > cheers, jerry > ===================================================================== > Alleviating the pain of Windows(tm) ------- http://www.samba.org > GnuPG Key ----- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc > "There's an anonymous coward in all of us." --anonymous -- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, 2 Ed., ISBN: 0131882228 Samba-3 by Example, 2 Ed., ISBN: 0131882221X Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 Other books in production. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
