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Why does getent passwd or group only return local entries when using SSSD in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

Solution Verified - Updated 2014-11-03T13:27:19+00:00 -

Issue

When I run getent passwd or getent group I expected all the accounts to be listed, both local and all those configured in LDAP, but I only get the local entries.
getent passwd or group only returns local entries when using SSSD
Why is getent passwd or getent group not returning LDAP entries ?

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
SSSD configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf as:

shadow:     files sss
group:      files sss
passwd:     files sss

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