[CentOS] Zombie users in Centos6

[Martin Božič]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 12:03:29PM -0400, Cosme Corrêa wrote:
>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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Hi, I think you are looking for nslcd, not nscd on C6.

Regards,
Martin