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Re: authentication problem

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:08:27AM +0200, Chris wrote:

> What happens when I run "getent passwd" on the server .
> 
> getent passwd izak
> izak:*:504:100:Izak Veldsman:/home/izak:/bin/bash
> getent passwd bertus
> bertus:*:500:100:Bertus Smit:/home/bertus:/bin/bash
> 
> On one client nothing for these specific users, the other users work fine.

It may be that they are 'negatively cached' in nscd. Try this on the
problem client:

service nscd restart
getent passwd izak

Andrew
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