Christian Heimes added the comment:
Dave has explained the problem very well. I like to add one thing. The module
just returns what your operation system's getspent() API returns.
http://linux.die.net/man/3/getspnam
Please ask your vendor for more details, too.
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New submission from halfie assie...@gmail.com:
spwd.getspall() is returning LDAP (non local) users too.
On RHEL 6.2 machine with LDAP authentication configured, spwd.getspall()
is returning LDAP (non local) users too. On a similarly configured CentOS 6.2
machine, spwd.getspall() is returning
Changes by Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr:
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Dave Malcolm dmalc...@redhat.com added the comment:
Like passwd and group information, the shadow password entries are pulled
through libc's Name Service Switch and modules for it, depending on
configuration.
See man nsswitch.conf.
Hence this is likely to be a configuration difference
