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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Cosme Faria Corrêa