On Jan 21, 2008 2:23 PM, Dave <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com> wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for your reply. I looked at permissions on the nss_* and ldap* > and slapd.conf files, they are all 644. > This issue may be related maybe not. Upon starting slapd i'm seeing > this in my log: > > Jan 20 23:23:41 ldap slapd[3697]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - > Server is unavailable > yet as i say i can log in, only the username part of the prompt is > unavailable. Again checking PS1 it is set properly. > Thanks. > Dave. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Tronn Wærdahl <tronnw at gmail.com> > *To:* CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > *Sent:* Sunday, January 20, 2008 12:43 PM > *Subject:* Re: [CentOS] centos authentication via ldap produces no name > shellprompt > > > > On Jan 20, 2008 11:45 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > I allso experienced this with CentOS4.4, then I got i because of some > missconfiguration with the LDAP. If I remember correctly is was coz of some > permission was failling on some ldap configuration files (/etc/ldap.conf, > /etc/openldap/slapd.conf, /etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/openldap/ldap.conf) > > > Tronn > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Hi Yes i use it with samba as pdc. My /etc/ldap.conf look like this host localhost base dc=example,dc=com bindpw secret binddn cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com #rootbinddn cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com ssl no pam_filter objectclass=posixAccount pam_login_attribute uid pam_password md5 I did this some time ago, so i dont remember all of it. But I noticed that what order the lines are in here was a issue too Tronn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080121/2db4cd89/attachment-0005.html>