If the login start with a number, il can cause some problems.
linux account must be [a-Z][a-Z0-9]+
but a number at start seems to be allowed
but getent look at first char to differenciate a login from a uid.
mandriva is patched against that, debian isn't.
for suse I don't know.
Emmanuel
Le
Than,
When you do the getent passwd user
you need to actually specify the domain for example if you have 2 domains
called DOMA and DOMB and you had users in each you would do
getent passwd doma\\username or domb\\username (given \ is your winbind
separator )
This should help you with your