[CentOS] centos authentication via ldap produces no name shell prompt

[mouss]

Dave wrote:
> Hello,
>    I'm trying to set up centos 5.1 to authenticate against an openldap 
> server. I've got the authentication working, in that i can log in as a 
> user contained within the ldap database but not in the system 
> passwd/group files. The problem is instead of a prompt that for 
> example looks like this:
>
> (username)@hostname:~/$
>
> i'm getting this:
>
> (I have no name)@hostname:~/$
>
set the prompt with something like
PS1="(\u)@\h: \W\$ "

>    Aside from this everything works, i can finger, use id, etc. It's 
> annoying and i'm thinking it might be a symptom of a misconfiguration. 
> Any suggestions?

make sure the right shell is returned.