Description
Describe the bug
Using the server.Users
fact (and related, such as server.Groups
) does not respect the configuration of /etc/nsswitch.conf
, e.g. when LDAP is configured.
To Reproduce
Configure e.g. LDAP/sssd in /etc/nsswitch.conf
or libnss_systemd
for the passwd
database and attempt to query a user from that source using the server.Users
fact.
Since the server.Users
and server.Groups
fact only looks at /etc/passwd
and /etc/groups
instead of using e.g. libnss these user entries are not returned.
If necessary, I can provide a more detailed example, but I believe the main point comes across.
Expected behavior
Enumerate and return users/groups according to the /etc/nsswitch.conf
configuration.
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Suggested Solution
Use getent
to query the passwd
and groups
database, but fall back to /etc/passwd
and /etc/group
in the unlikely case that getent
is not provided, e.g. on a busybox system.
Some additional ideas:
If getent
is used, it could also be helpful to allow the user to provide the --service
argument to getent
.
Perhaps the server.User
fact could be extended to not just return the name of the current user, but to also include the same information as server.Users
provides and to allow specifying a different user to return information about.
And add a new fact server.Group
that does the same.
The Name Service Switch has a few other database that might be interesting to implement, e.g. aliases
, ethers
, hosts
, initgroups
, networks
, protocols
, rpc
, services
and some special cases sudoers
, subid
.
If such a change would be welcome, I could look into implementing these suggestions.
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