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. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >