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Why am I known as a user?
I inherited a Linux server; the previous administrator is no longer with our company. I can log in to the server via SSH with my company-wide Microsoft Directory administration user, and it works ...
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Resolve an IP to FQDN in domain that are not in resolvctl config
I want to use basic tool available without installing anything to solve an IP into it's FQDN. I know the domain in which I can solve this IP.
The command line or the tool should be available on any ...
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extract user id and 1st inital last name from output
Getting the output of user identity with getent passwd.
How can i change the output from
u12345:John Doe
to
u12345,jdoe
i got it with sed but it it removes u12345 but does give me jdoe
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'getent passwd' not showing LDAP users, athough users can log in
I have an administration node running LDAP and a login node which uses LDAP on the other node to authorize users. Users are able to log into the login node successfully.
When I run getent passwd, on ...
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How to get list of users with a given group as primary group
With
getent group xyz
I get a list of users who are members of xyz with xyz either as a primary group or as secondary group.
How do I get a list of just those users who have xyz as their primary ...
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Random DNS errors after change to nsswitch.conf
I recently installed my EPSON L3150 printer's drivers and about the same time I started having weird (and random) DNS name resolution errors in some applications (ssh, nextcloud-client), that I can ...
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List of Users - RHEL
I want to get list of users - both human and machine who have access to the unix server. OS is:
NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server"
VERSION="7.9 (Maipo)"
I tried cat /etc/...
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Why does getent default to .station if no TLD is specified?
With my current setup, I have a dnsmasq instance operating on my home server (Void Linux) and 3 GNU/Linux devices that use it as default dns (1 Manjaro, 1 Arch, 1 Linux Mint 20.1).
Due to seemingly ...
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Why are there two root and nobody accounts according to "getent passwd"?
The output further down was retrieved by employing machinectl on a Ubuntu 20.04 host:
machinectl pull-tar https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/focal/current/focal-server-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.xz focal
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Groups from LDAP: "getent" reports membership correctly but missing in output of "id"
I have a Debian 10 machine which uses PAM LDAP for authentication. In LDAP I have two users alice and bob which are both members of group mygroup. Everything has worked fine (so the configuration ...
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User listed in group but not in getent passwd
On a specific machine with both local users and LDAP users, there is a user that is listed under getent group foo (let's say the user jdoe is listed), but when doing getent passwd jdoe I get no output....
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Usage details of ahostsv4 in linux
There is a term called ahostsv4 in the Linux documentation of man getent. What is the usage of it?
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Inconsistency between “getent group” and “getent group <groupname>” – why?
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How is the following possible?
$ getent group | grep docker
$ getent group docker
docker:x:600:
Note that the first call doesn’t return anything while the second one does.
grpck doesn’t ...
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What must be added to nsswitch.conf to show AD users and groups?
This is a follow-up to this question.
I have a CentOS 7 machine which has joined a domain FOOBAR. It is possible to successfully get info about users stored in the AD via
id [email protected]
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find user name through full name / gecos field?
Given a system where the user data comes from e.g. an OpenLDAP database and is not in the /etc/passwd file.
Is it possible to search through the getent passwd database and look up the user id/name by ...
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