[Samba] getent not displaying builtin groups or users

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Tue Nov 1 12:02:21 UTC 2016


On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 11:00:15 +0000
niya levi via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> hi everyone
> 
> i have configured 2 domain controllers and a domain member
> 
> the domain member is joined to the domain and
> 
> ad and rfc2307 is configured for idmap backend,
> 
> wbinfo returns domain builtins for groups and users on both the member
> servers an the dc's
> 
> nsswitch.conf is configured with winbind,
> 
> getent only returns local users and groups, is getent also suppose to
> return the builtins without me setting any unix attributes in the ad ?
> 
> shadrock
> 
> 
> 
> 

No, getent only returns users and groups that it can find and, on a unix
machine, this means using either the 'rid' backend ( and you still
don't get all the BUILTIN's) or the 'ad' backend. If you use the 'ad'
backend, you will only get users & groups with uid/gidNumbers.

Rowland



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