Re: "user with UID not found" error

[Christopher Batten]

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