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

Mon Jan 21 16:11:44 UTC 2008
mups.cp <mups.cp at gmail.com>

Maybe not the better approach, but using nscd on the clients solve this.

On Jan 20, 2008 8:45 AM, Dave <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com> 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:~/$
>
>    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?
> Thanks.
> Dave.
>
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