Re: i have no name!

[Michael Biebl <biebl@teco.edu>]

Brian K. Jones wrote:
> Can't believe this hasn't ever made it to this list :)
>
> I'm running a stock Redhat 7.3 install, including the stock openldap
> packages.  I've made it through the importing of NIS data into the
> server, and I'm even able, at this point, to log in to another redhat
> box via ssh, which gets the login info from the ldap server (yay!).
>
> However, even though I can log into this box using info from the ldap
> server, it apparently can't determine my username, because my bash
> prompt looks like this: [i have no name!@host]
>
> Also, doing an 'ls -l' in my home directory shows uid number only - no
> names.  

Add/Change these entriese in your /etc/nsswitch.conf:

passwd:         files ldap
group:          files ldap
shadow:         files ldap


It's also preferable to install the nscd, which caches queries for uid 
and gid.


Yours,
Michael Biebl



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