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nslookup, dig, firefox ignoring /etc/hosts file entries
There is something terribly wrong with my current Debian install. Most programs like firefox, nslookup, dig etc. are ignoring entries in /etc/hosts file, actually I use this file for Ad-blocking.
an ...
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How to use same library more than once in Name Service Switch (NSS)
Is there any generic solution to use a single NSS library two (or more) times?
In my case I have two LDAP servers, one local on the machine itself and one remote. I need to make NSS work with both of ...
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read files directly VS getent
In various shell scripts I often see two approaches for getting information from databases supported by Name Service Switch libraries like /etc/group, /etc/hosts or /etc/services. One is getent ...
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LDAP: Local and remote user with same username
I have configured an openLDAP server with LDAP user and group ids beginning at 10000. My client successfully binds to the LDAP server via ldapsearch. Additionally, getent passwd|group returns a full ...
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Editing nsswitch.conf to check for files other than /etc/passwd while searching local files for user details
I have a file in /etc named radius which contains the user account details similar to /etc/passwd but of Radius users. How do I configure /etc/nsswitch.conf to check /etc/radius in addition to ...
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Domain name resolution tool not specific to DNS [duplicate]
host, dig and nslookup can be used to lookup DNS names from the command line. However, they query the names from the DNS server directly, instead of using nsswitch to resolve host names. This means ...
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How to disconnect a server from LDAP
I have a Fedora server configured for LDAP. However, the LDAP server is gone, and now I'm unable to SSH into it. I've rebooted the server into single-user mode, brought up eth0 and started sshd, but ...
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Editing nsswitch.conf file safely
What's the best way to edit the /etc/nsswitch.conf file other than just using sed -i to edit it in place or overwrite it in total.
For our build we need to make changes to this file without ...
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To which Debian package does /etc/nsswitch.conf belong?
I tried to find out to which package /etc/nsswitch.conf belongs on my Debian machine, but dpkg --search /etc/nsswitch.conf won't tell me. Does anyone know?
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How is a username determined and can I hide the domain component in a winbind username?
Someone asked a question on Server Fault about a problem which I'm also having but no one has answered it so I'm posing a slightly different question to try and figure it out myself.
I've configured ...
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Whta does '\+::::::/bin/bash' in /etc/passwd mean?
Found the line \+::::::/bin/bash in my /etc/passwd, which looks strange to me. What does that mean? Has my computer been hacked?
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getent passwd when nsswitch passwd setting is: files ldap
If /etc/nsswitch.conf has:
passwd: files ldap
this line in it, and I do getent passwd will it first run down the /etc/passwd list and then go through every user in LDAP? That seems to be ...
