Hi Andreas,
Hmm, that still doesn't fix all the nasty other effects with UIDs. At my previous employer (a German Linux company) I used to disable NSCD on all systems I ever configured. My colleagues did or still do the same (Hi MGE!). So far it only made sense to enable nscd on systems with network authentication (NIS, LDAP).
Right, I remember! There was something else: If you have two users with the same numerical userid, the nscd would gratefully return the second one instead of the first one. This happens because the cache is built that way. It may even have security implications...
cheers afx
Take care and have a happy new year!
Roman.
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