caching of /etc/passwd?

[Matthias Wächter]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Thomas Stroesslin wrote:

> from a perl-script, I do:
> 
> @error = `useradd -g users -d $4 -s /bin/bash -c \"$2\" -m $1`;
> 
> and later:
> 
> @smbpass_error= `smbpasswd -a $1 $3`;
> 
> where $1 is the username (gam_test) and $3 the password
> 
> Unfortunately, I always get:
> User "gam_test" was not found in system password file.

looks like you have nscd running (name service caching daemon).
Eventually, kill nscd and restart it to force a rescan of the userdb (and
other cacheable databases). Had the same problem using SuSE 6.2

Sehr Wus,
- Matthias

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