[Samba] getent passwd SAMDOM\\demo01 does not work

K.R. Foley kr at cybsft.com
Wed Oct 13 13:23:44 UTC 2021


On 2021-10-13 08:19, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-10-13 at 08:08 -0500, K. R. Foley via samba wrote:
>> On 10/13/21 1:38 AM, Jürgen Echter wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Am Mittwoch, Oktober 13, 2021 05:10 CEST, schrieb "K. R. Foley via
>> > samba" <samba at lists.samba.org>:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > Should "getent passwd SAMDOM\\demo01" work from a Linux AD
>> > > member?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > AD server running on CentOS Linux 7
>> > >
>> > > Samba 4.11.13 built from source
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Member server running on CentOS Linux 7
>> > >
>> > > Samba 4.11.13 built from source
>> > >
>> > > Configured following
>> > > https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Domain_Member.
>> > >
>> > > Joined  using "# net ads join -U administrator" without issue.
>> > >
>> > > "# wbinfo --ping-dc" works and reports the domain info correctly.
>> > >
>> > > "getent passwd <local user>" works fine
>> > >
>> > > "getent passwd SAMDOM\\<domain user>" returns nothing.
>> > >
>> > > "getent group SAMDOM\\Domain Users" returns nothing.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Should  this work? Any help troubleshooting this would be
>> > > appreciated.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > >
>> > > kr
>> > >
>> > >
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>> > maybe you missed something here:
>> >
>> > https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Domain_Member#Configuring_the_Name_Service_Switch
>> 
>> Thanks for your reply. I have configured nsswitch.conf. See below:
>> 
>> #passwd:     files sss winbind
>> passwd:     files winbind
>> shadow:     files sss
>> #group:      files sss winbind
>> group:      files winbind
>> 
>> Thanks,
> 
> Are you using sssd on the computer as well ?
> 
> Rowland
> 

I think it does by default on CentOS. As you can see above I tried it 
with/without sss in nsswitch.conf. Could this be causing a problem?

kr



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