Re: [Samba] getent & winbindd on FreeBSD 5.4

From: Dan Nelson (dnelson_at_allantgroup.com)
Date: 09/16/05

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    Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:00:48 -0500
To: Doug Sampson <dougs@dawnsign.com>

    In the last episode (Sep 16), Doug Sampson said:
    > > FreeBSD doesn't come with a getent program. I was able to compile
    > > OpenSolaris' getent on FreeBSD with minimal problems, though. You'll
    > > have to remove support for ipnodes, project, and netmasks since those
    > > are Solaris-specific, remove the gettext code, and you'll need to
    > > provide a "putpwent" function (I used
    > > /usr/src/usr.sbin/pw/pwupd.c:fmtpwentry() instead ).
    > >
    > > http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/cmd/getent/
    >
    > I found the source for getent in
    > /usr/ports/net/samba3/work/samba-3.0.20/testsuite/nsswitch (see file
    > listing:)
    >
    > and I ran 'gcc -o getent getent.c' to create the getent command. I
    > then moved it to /usr/local/sbin and ran 'getent passwd'. The output
    > still doesn't produce the list of domain users- only the local users.
    > Hm? I am not sure if I am doing this correctly. I am flying blindly
    > on this as I am relatively new to *nix in general (huge learning
    > curve). Can you verify that I'm doing this correctly?

    Yes, that getent command should suffice for printing users and groups,
    including any NSS-provided ones. You can also use the 'id' or 'pw user
    show' commands to print similar info.

    > I am starting to wonder if my problem isn't related to getent but
    > elsewhere. I read on the 'Net that FreeBSD finally provided NSS
    > support starting with version 5.0. I also wonder if I'm not
    > configuring my PAM modules correctly. See my earlier mail re:
    > nsswitch.conf and /etc/pam.d/login.

    PAM only handles authentication during login; looking up user/group
    names is handled by NSS. If your nsswitch.conf has "passwd: compat
    winbind" in it, you have a /usr/local/lib/nss_winbind.so.1 file, and
    getent can't find users that windbind should be providing, I'd start
    looking for nss_winbind debugging options. 

    -- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com
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