Hmm. Silly(ish) question re: winbind

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Glenn Sieb wrote:

> On 02:03 PM 11/26/2001 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> >Looks like you don't have the correct entries in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
>
> #cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
> passwd: files winbind
> group:  files winbind
>
> Here's an interesting question, though... I don't have any kind of
> nsswitchd or nsswitch in my ps list.. is this file read by winbindd?

It's read by the C library (glibc)  when implementing
getpwnam(), et. al.






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