Re: OpenLDAP / PAM: No Username

[Denis Witt <denis.witt@concepts-and-training.de>]

Hi Howard,

thanks for your reply. I've disabled ncsd for now. Do you have any idea 
how I could force the error to test if ncsd really was the reason?

Bye for now.

On 14.09.2011 22:34, Howard Chu wrote:
> Denis Witt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running OpenLDAP 2.4.23-7.2 (from Debian Squeeze). Most of the time
> > everything works fine, the LDAP-Server is used by libpam/libnss, Samba,
> > Dovecot and Postfix. Sometimes when I log into the Server via SSH the
> > command prompt displays "Ich habe keinen Benutzernamen@servername"
> > (which means "I don't have a username") instead of my username. The
> > login itself works fine. The real problem is that if this happens the
> > Mailserver isn't able to deliver mails:
> >
> > status=bounced (unknown user: "myusername")
> >
> > Using google I found some other users with the "don't have a
> > username"-Problem, but most of the time they had a ACL-Problem. As the
> > LDAP-Server usually is working it seems that this isn't the problem.
> >
> > Also the problem is gone when I restart the whole machine (just
> > restarting slapd doesn't help).
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> You're probably running nscd. Google it. Then get rid of it.