getent passwd not returning some LDAP accounts

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

When the following command was uses some LDAP users would get returned while others would not.

getent passwd|grep username

When the getent command for the specific users was used all user data was returned properly.

getent passwd username

Example:

[root@hqsas-01 ~]# getent passwd haleyd
haleyd:xxxxxxxxxx:10098:10000:Haley, Dan:/home/haleyd:/bin/bash
[root@hqsas-01 ~]# getent passwd |grep haleyd

[root@hqsas-01 ~]# getent passwd loganj
loganj:xxxxxxxxxx:10000:10000:Logan, Jonathan:/home/loganj:/bin/bash
[root@hqsas-01 ~]# getent passwd |grep loganj
loganj:xxxxxxxxxx:10000:10000:Logan, Jonathan:/home/loganj:/bin/bash

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 5
  • Windows 2003 SP2 running Windows Services for UNIX Version 3.5

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