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Date:      Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:57:17 +0200
From:      Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@spoerlein.net>
To:        Vlad Galu <dudu@dudu.ro>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pw groupadd/useradd fail when the nscd cache is used for name/group resolution
Message-ID:  <20090713165717.GN2145@acme.spoerlein.net>
In-Reply-To: <ad79ad6b0907090613t78cf8540n5fcd3934cadde526@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <ad79ad6b0907090613t78cf8540n5fcd3934cadde526@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 09.07.2009 at 16:13:25 +0300, Vlad Galu wrote:
> I've stumbled upon this while installing postgres. In
> /etc/nsswitch.conf I had "group: cache files compat" and "passwd:
> cache files compat". Once I commented them out things started working
> again. Before the change, this is how it looked like:
> 
> -- cut here --
> [root@vgalu /usr/ports/databases/postgresql84-server]# pw group add pgsql -g 70
> pw: group disappeared during update
> [root@vgalu /usr/ports/databases/postgresql84-server]# pw group add pgsql -g 70
> pw: group 'pgsql' already exists
> [root@vgalu /usr/ports/databases/postgresql84-server]#
> -- and here --
> 
> Shouldn't 'files' be used upon a cache miss? If this is a PEBKAC,
> sorry for the noise.

Just a me too. This is most likely because nscd is also caching negative
lookups. The usual workaround would be to restart it using
/etc/rc.d/nscd restart

Cheers,
Ulrich Spörlein



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