> 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