[CentOS] Zombie users in Centos6

Wed Aug 6 16:03:29 UTC 2014
Cosme Corrêa <cosmefc at gmail.com>

Hi,

thank you.

Looking for more information, I get this:

# service nscd status
nscd is stopped
# service sssd status
sssd is stopped
# service winbind status
winbindd is stopped

:-(
Is there any hope?


TIA


On 8/6/2014 11:32 AM, Mark Tinberg wrote:
> On Aug 6, 2014, at 9:28 AM, Cosme Corrêa <cosmefc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a machine with PAM using LDAP.
>> Some old users do not disappear from:
>>
>>   * getent passwd
>>
>> But, they are not in:
>>
>>   * /etc/passwd or
>>   * LDAP
>>
>> Where are they?
>
> Usually when you use LDAP for NSS you have a caching daemon to cut down on the number of round trips and latency (every time you need to map a userID to a name requires a call to LDAP) so maybe your cache is not expiring the old entries yet.  NSCD which comes with GLIBC is a common cache, otherwise SSSD or WINBIND are also commonly used.  Restarting your cache should help.
>
>> Mark Tinberg
> mtinberg at wisc.edu
>
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