getent not working on nss db passwd files:

[Tjernlund]

On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 22:31 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 26 Aug 2015 01:58, Tjernlund wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> shadow and all of its utilities are not maintained by glibc.  you'll 
> have to
> talk to them wrt restrictions they impose.

Of course! Too late for me to think clearly :(

 Jocke