15 Jul
2010
15 Jul
'10
11:13 a.m.
Your /etc/nscd.conf is only configured to cache passwd/group/hosts. It's not configured to cache shadow.
(I don't know if nscd _can_ be configured to cache shadow or not; never tried)
rgds Stephen
The nscd is a "name service caching daemon" and not an authentication credentials cache.
man 8 nscd
"Nscd provides caching for accesses of the passwd(5), group(5), and hosts(5) databases through standard libc interfaces, such as getpwnam(3), getpwuid(3), getgrnam(3), getgrgid(3), gethostby-name(3), and others."
"Note that the shadow file is specifically not cached. getspnam(3) calls remain uncached as a result."
Regards
Alexander