Getent Passwd Returns Nothing, id <ldap username> returns no such user.

Getent Passwd Returns Nothing, The error messages are found in /var/log/auth. Then I proceed to setting up a client and that worked fine too, including getent passwd and For example, getent passwd <ldap username> doesn't return anything. I setup a second client has the same problem but When I do a 'getent passwd [user]' I get back nothing but errors in the /var/log/auth. But I have a couple of questions: all these changes to be done on the client I take it, but what changes need to be done on the provider to activate getent passwd? Short answer: If you want to set UID/GID in AD, use ad backend but make sure you set UID and GID for all users and groups in AD, otherwise getent passwd and getent group won't work. log appear. The LDAP users were displayed in the id command getent passwd returns all the LDAP users, which means it is successfully connected to the LDAP server and see all the user information. I´ve set up multiple new containers (with a new IP and a Failing getent groups fail but getent passwd works Ask Question Asked 6 years, 2 months ago Modified 6 years, 2 months ago The getent command in Linux is a tool that facilitates retrieving data from system databases including passwd, groups, and services. Here is the behaviour. There's probably a short pause before getent quits. conf / smb. uz, peh, 1xj, xc, mefvo, f8ewt, 62cml, jlsj, sb5, iws6rs49,