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glibc package

  1. Bug #214566
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 214566

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Daniel Richard G. (skunk) wrote :

Over a decade later, I am seeing this same behavior on Ubuntu 22.04/jammy with nscd 2.35-0ubuntu3.1:

    # /etc/nsswitch.conf

    passwd: files systemd ldap

I have two users with the same ID (but different usernames, groups, etc.), one in /etc/passwd (files) and one in LDAP. Doing "getent passwd $uid" returns the LDAP entry instead of /etc/passwd, which is clearly not the desired behavior. Stopping nscd causes the query to return the correct entry.

For what it's worth, the "unscd" package provides a drop-in replacement for nscd that works correctly.