getent not working on nss db passwd files:

[Tjernlund]

On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 19:18 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 25 Aug 2015 20:43, Tjernlund wrote:
> > # > echo "clue:x:1005:987:added by portage for 
> > clue:/var/tmp:/sbin/nologin" | makedb  -o passwd.db  -
> > ...
> > I am doing something wrong or is it an bug?
> 
> you're using makedb incorrectly.  look at /var/db/Makefile to see how 
> to
> process the passwd entries in a way that the makedb tool expects.
> 
> makedb itself could probably be better wrt error 
> reporting/documentation ...

I am looking into creating local tacacs/radius accounts automatically
when a user logs in. One obstacle using shadow(useradd) is that one
cannot use @ in user names. Why is that and is there a way around that?

    Jocke