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Re: getent doesn't work properly


Greetings, Maayan Apelboim!

>> You aren't running Cygwin Cygserver and I don't see your nsswitch setup.
>
>> P.S.
>> Also, please no top-posting in this list.

> Sorry for top posting, my bad :)
> I have the default nsswitch - This is my configuration:
> # /etc/nsswitch.conf
> #
> #    This file is read once by the first process in a Cygwin process tree.
> #    To pick up changes, restart all Cygwin processes.  For a description
> #    see https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch
> #
> # Defaults:
> # passwd:   files db
> # group:    files db
> # db_enum:  cache builtin
> # db_home:  /home/%U
> # db_shell: /bin/bash
> # db_gecos: <empty>

That should be sufficient for most use cases.

> Why do I need cygserver?

You don't exactly NEED cygserver. But if you have
1. Domain (or even multi-domain) environment.
2. and/or remote/slow/flaky connection to the domain server.
cygserver may provide a smoother experience as it caches some information
related to names resolution.

> I don't have it on any other server and everything works fine.
> I actually have this problem only in one env - the rest works as expected.
> All servers are installed the same, but for some reason this problem
> persists only in one env / domain, and one server specifically has this
> problem more than others (even after reinstallation).


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Monday, October 28, 2019 20:25:38

Sorry for my terrible english...


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