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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: Maayan Apelboim <Maayan.Apelboim@clarizen.com>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: getent doesn't work properly
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191023114234.GZ16240@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM4PR07MB34731435DFE766479991C050956B0@AM4PR07MB3473.eurprd07.prod.outlook.com>

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On Oct 23 11:17, Maayan Apelboim wrote:
> 
> Is "UK" the name of the local machine or the name of your domain?
> 
> How does your /etc/nsswitch.conf file look like?
> 
> Do you still have /etc/passwd and /etc/group files?  If so, does removing the files change the above behaviour?  If so, can you attach both files verbatim to your reply?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Corinna
> 
> --
> Corinna Vinschen
> Cygwin Maintainer
> 
> 
> ----------------------------
> Hi,
> 
> UK is my domain. 
> I'm not using passwd and group files after being advised in the past not to.
> My /etc/nsswitch.conf is default. Didn't make any changes to this file.

Since I can't reproduce this problem, would you mind trying to run
getent under strace?  It would be helpful to get 2 strace outputs
for the same account, one working, one failing.  Call it like this:

  $ strace -o getent-1.trace getent passwd <account>


Thanks,
Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-23 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-17  9:02 Maayan Apelboim
2019-10-17 12:23 ` Jose Isaias Cabrera
2019-10-17 13:02   ` Maayan Apelboim
2019-10-17 16:55     ` Jose Isaias Cabrera
2019-10-18 12:44       ` Brian Inglis
2019-10-18 10:52 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-10-23 11:17   ` Maayan Apelboim
2019-10-23 11:42     ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2019-10-23 13:28       ` Brian Inglis
2019-10-23 13:33       ` Maayan Apelboim
2019-10-24 14:06         ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-10-28  8:56           ` Maayan Apelboim
2019-11-13 12:04             ` Maayan Apelboim
2019-11-13 12:08               ` Maayan Apelboim
2019-10-18 11:05 ` Andrey Repin
2019-10-22  8:22   ` Maayan Apelboim
2019-10-28 17:35     ` Andrey Repin
2019-10-29  0:03       ` Brian Inglis
2019-11-13 15:18         ` Maayan Apelboim
2019-11-25 13:29           ` Maayan Apelboim
2019-11-25 15:24             ` Maayan Apelboim

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