Topic: nsswitch

• Tracing which identity source answers for a user: getent, id, nsswitch.conf and sss_cache

  When a Linux host is joined to a directory, a user lookup can be answered by local files, SSSD/LDAP, or another module entirely, in the order nsswitch.conf lists them. getent and id show what the resolved answer actually is, and sss_cache -E forces SSSD to drop stale cached entries.

  methodology · en · reviewed · knowledge as of 2026-09-24

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