Many applications return "getpwuid(): uid not found" for Active Directory users.

Bug #513376 reported by David L Norris
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centrifydc (Ubuntu)
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likewise-open5 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: likewise-open5

Certain applications are reporting that they cannot find the user ID of the currently logged in user using standard posix entities routines. I suspect this may be caused by 32-bit applications running on 64-bit Ubuntu and a 64-bit-only lsass installation.

I have found that installing nscd (name switch cache daemon) along with likewise-open5 largely eliminates this problem. The only time I have seen this error since installing nscd is when the ubuntu-bug tool attempted to launch a web browser when running with sudo. nscd seems to have fixed the problem for local applications being run as the currently logged in user.

I attempted to install a 32-bit version of libnss_lsass.so.2 along with the 64-bit but that did not appear to correct the problem. I may not have done something I needed to do, though.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 27 12:36:52 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/lsassd
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: likewise-open5-lsass 5.0.3991.1+krb5-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: likewise-open5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64

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David L Norris (webaugur) wrote :
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Alex Mauer (hawke) wrote :

I’m having the same problem, using centrifydc.

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