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Operating Systems Solaris getent not working, solaris 10 only Post 302597327 by h_thal on Friday 10th of February 2012 02:30:21 AM
Old 02-10-2012
any special characters in the gecos attribute?

I had the same problem on our Sol10 servers, the "getent passwd" command stopped after 4300 entries (from 12.000 entries). But the getent command on Sol8 and Linux clients still worked well.

I found out, that the reason for this behaviour was in my case a ":" character in the gecos attribute string of one user on the Oracle Directory Server. This is a bug in the LDAP client implementation of Solaris10.
 

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GETENT(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 GETENT(1)

NAME
getent -- get entries from administrative databases SYNOPSIS
getent database [key ...] getcap database [key ...] DESCRIPTION
The getent program retrieves and displays entries from the administrative database specified by database, using the lookup order specified in nsswitch.conf(5). The display format for a given database is as per the ``traditional'' file format for that database. database may be one of: Database Display format disktab entry ethers address name gettytab entry group group:passwd:gid:[member[,member]...] hosts address name [alias ...] netgroup (host,user,domain) [...] networks name network [alias ...] passwd user:passwd:uid:gid:gecos:home_dir:shell printcap entry protocols name protocol [alias ...] rpc name number [alias ...] services name port/protocol [alias ...] shells /path/to/shell If one or more key arguments are provided, they will be looked up in database using the appropriate function. For example, passwd supports a numeric UID or user name; hosts supports an IPv4 address, IPv6 address, or host name; and services supports a service name, service name/pro- tocol name, numeric port, or numeric port/protocol name. If no key is provided and database supports enumeration, all entries for database will be retrieved using the appropriate enumeration func- tion and printed. For cgetcap(3) style databases (disktab, printcap) specifying a key, lists the entry for that key, and specifying more arguments after the key are used as fields in that key, and only the values of the keys are returned. For boolean keys true is returned if the key is found. If a key is not found, then false is always returned. DIAGNOSTICS
getent exits 0 on success, 1 if there was an error in the command syntax, 2 if one of the specified key names was not found in database, or 3 if there is no support for enumeration on database. SEE ALSO
cgetcap(3), disktab(5), ethers(5), gettytab(5), group(5), hosts(5), networks(5), nsswitch.conf(5), passwd(5), printcap(5), protocols(5), rpc(5), services(5), shells(5) HISTORY
A getent command appeared in NetBSD 3.0. It was based on the command of the same name in Solaris and Linux. BSD
October 11, 2011 BSD
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