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On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:12:49PM +0000, Marshall McMullen wrote: |
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> But there was never any resolution as to what might be causing this |
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> problem and I had since given up. But, now I have renewed reason for |
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> getting this to work, so I would really appreciate some help in figuring |
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> out what is going on. For the system I am using, I do not have a local |
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> account or group on, only LDAP accounts. |
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To me it looks like the question is how the user IDs are determined on |
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your system. |
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> It seems the pwd and grp modules only query the local Unix /etc/passwd and |
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> /etc/group files. Can anyone confirm that ? |
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> In any event, I would appreciate any advice or help in getting this to |
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> work. |
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I was just looking into the python code that is implementing the failing |
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function is question. It is calling the 'getpwnam' function of the |
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operating system. I attached you some C code to see what this function |
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is returning on your system. Please compile the C code with the |
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following command: |
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| gcc -o getpwnam getpwnam.c |
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Then run it using the following command: |
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| ./getpwnam mdmcmull |
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On many UNIX systems I would expect the behaviour of this system |
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function to be determined by the output of: |
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| grep ^passwd /etc/nsswitch.conf |
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Please post the output of this command as well. |
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Knowing all that there is still some chance left we'll not have the |
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slightest idea what's going on. ;) |
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Dirk. |
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