[Samba] getent not returning users/groups

spindles seven spindles7 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 28 16:21:19 UTC 2022


On 28 February 2022 16:04 Rowland Penny wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-02-28 at 15:42 +0000, spindles seven wrote:
> >
> > >
> >
> > I must be missing something here.  If what you say above is true, then
> > why does the WiKi advise adding the "winbind enum" lines to the
> > smb.conf in order for the getent commands to show all AD users and
> > groups?
> 
> It didn't (it seems to have been removed in the pruning of required information), it
> said to only to use them for testing purposes.
> 
> >     Also your other answer in this thread seems to contradict this as
> > well.   I certainly cannot get the list to include AD users and
> > groups without the enum lines.
> 
> I doubt I said that and if you must have the 'enum' lines in smb.conf for your Unix
> domain member to work, then you have something exceedingly strangely wrong with
> your set up.
> 
> >
> > So what settings "when set up correctly" allow getent to display all
> > users and groups (without the 'enum' lines)?
> 
> None, because you do not need them:
> 
> rowland at devstation:~$ getent passwd | grep rowland rowland at devstation:~$
> 
> Just running the output of 'getent passwd' through grep with my name, produces no
> output.
> 
Exactly.   That's what I thought I said


> rowland at devstation:~$ getent passwd rowland rowland:*:10000:10000:Rowland
> Penny:/home/rowland:/bin/bash
> 
> Yet adding my name to the getent command does.
> 

Again that's what I said

> rowland at devstation:~$ cat /etc/passwd | grep rowland rowland at devstation:~$
> 
> My name is not in /etc/passwd
> 
> rowland at devstation:~$ cat /etc/samba/smb.conf | grep 'enum'
> rowland at devstation:~$
> 
> I do not have the 'enum' lines in smb.conf, yet everything works.
> 
> Rowland

Mine too, so not sure why you said my post was totally wrong.    You clipped the remaidner of my post which demonstrated what you say above.      Seems like I was totally right😊

Roy




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