From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 4 23:17:26 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF7391065672 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 23:17:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brodbd@uw.edu) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 798408FC17 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 23:17:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyg7 with SMTP id 7so1431242eyg.13 for ; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:17:25 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.28.78 with SMTP id l14mr1680971ebc.19.1317768353571; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:45:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.213.10.4 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 15:45:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20111004160043.GA16034@lpthe.jussieu.fr> References: <20111004160043.GA16034@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 15:45:53 -0700 Message-ID: From: David Brodbeck To: hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Does anyone use nscd? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:17:27 -0000 On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Michel Talon 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