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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