[Samba] getent not returning users/groups
Rowland Penny
rpenny at samba.org
Mon Feb 28 09:23:40 UTC 2022
On Mon, 2022-02-28 at 08:10 +0000, spindles seven via samba wrote:
> On 27 February 2022 23:48 Michael Evans wrote:
> > Someone I expect knows much more about samba than I do has stated
> > that winbind emum is incorrect
> > for exposing that user and group list to NSS services (so that
> > they're shown with getent passwd and
> > getent group; as well as any programs that want to validate
> > usernames / etc): So what should I and
> > others do instead?
>
> The winbind enum line in smb.conf is purely to "enumerate" the list
> of users so that you can use "getent passwd" or "getent group" to get
> a list of users a groups, including AD users and groups.
> Remove that line from smb.conf and all you will get are local users
> and groups when you use the getent commands.
Wrong, totally wrong.
Provided that everything else is set up correctly, getent will display
all individual users & groups without the 'enum' lines.
Rowland
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