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Date:      Tue, 4 Oct 2011 15:45:53 -0700
From:      David Brodbeck <brodbd@uw.edu>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Does anyone use nscd?
Message-ID:  <CAHHaOuYyQH_o=Mezc1G74E-oZbzeytmp=CD-WuLmnRGkSSVb_A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20111004160043.GA16034@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
References:  <20111004160043.GA16034@lpthe.jussieu.fr>

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On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> wrote:

> Des wrote:
> > Does anyone actually use nscd?
>
> I am using it since a lot of time. I have not experienced annoying bugs
> in all that time. The last time i have been hit is when installing some
> new softs which require adding some user and some group with pw. Of
> course this doesn't work well with caching these data, and i had
> completely forgotten i was using a cache. This is very perplexing.
>

It can also be problematic on Samba domain controllers, when adding new
machines to the domain -- Samba creates an account for the new machine, then
gets confused when a subsequent lookup of that account fails.

-- 
David Brodbeck
System Administrator, Linguistics
University of Washington



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