On Jul 15, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am 15.07.2010 19:26, schrieb Brian Marshall: > >> Then am I misinterpreting the fact that getent shadow returns data on ldap users when ldap is up but not when it's down? I guess I don't understand where that shadow data comes from when LDAP is up. > > /etc/nsswitch.conf > > Alexander > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Hi Alexander, Thanks for your response but /etc/nsswitch.conf does not contain any passwd, group or shadow data. It is a configuration file and is not used to cache or store data.