[Samba] getent not returning users/groups

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Sat Feb 26 08:19:16 UTC 2022


On Fri, 2022-02-25 at 17:01 -0800, Michael Evans via samba wrote:
> All groups and all users must have GID and UID entries if they show
> up in the passwd / groups nss list.

Only if you are using the winbind 'ad' idmap backend, which Gregory
isn't.

> 
> Please ensure that at least the user's unix UID and primary group
> unix Group ID are set via some method.

Why ?

> 
> There probably should be a wiki page dedicated to just this issue.

There is.

Also, the 'enum' lines are only required for troubleshooting purposes
(such as this) and shouldn't be in a production smb.conf.

Rowland





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