Re: OpenLDAP / PAM: No Username

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

On 15.09.2011 11:25, Howard Chu wrote:

> > 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?
>
> Leave nscd running. The next time you see the error occur, stop nscd.

Well, last time it took about a week until the error showed up. So it 
would be nice to force it. But I'll wait then. Still have some 
Samba/Win7-Problems so it will take some time anyway to go into 
production mode.

Thanks again for your help.

> > 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.