CentOS - Jan 2008 - centos authentication via ldap produces no name shell prompt

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.

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.

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.
>
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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
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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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> CentOS at centos.org
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>