Re: "user with UID not found" error

[Chris Marusich]

FYI: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2022-02/msg00263.html

Sorry for the top post; I'm not on my usual computer.

On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 12:51 PM Christopher Batten <cbatten@cornell.edu>
wrote:

>
> Hmmm ... this made me think that running both was not a great idea?
>
>
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/system-level_authentication_guide/usingnscd-sssd
>
> But I am not an expert on any of this :) I guess the key is to just make
> sure you only enable caching for hosts in /etc/nscd.conf?
>
> Best,
> Chris
>
> > On Jul 27, 2022, at 8:44 AM, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi Christopher,
> >
> >> Turns out we are using SSSD not NCSD on our Linux systems. It seems to
> be working fine:
> >
> > You will need to run NSCD if you want Guix software to be able to talk
> > to the system’s SSSD.  The reason is that SSSD works by having
> > applications load a library whereas NSCD implements a network protocol.
> > Software built with Guix cannot load the system libary due to ABI
> > conflict, but it *can* talk to NSCD over the network.
> >
> > The system NSCD talks to the system SSSD, so there’s no problem there.
> >
> > --
> > Ricardo
>
>