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Monday, 21 January 2008

I havo no name! (problems with LDAP on Debian)

Short post.

If you bound your machine to an LDAP server using PAM and libnss on a Debian box and you run into this:

I have no name!@yourmachine:~$


Check the permission for both libnss-ldap.conf and pam_ldap.conf. They have to be world readable ;)

Enjoy :D
Posted by stezz at 11:35
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10 comments:

  1. Anonymous12 September 2008 at 14:51

    Both are 644 (pam_ldap.conf is a symlink to libnss-ldap.conf), and still have no name..

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  2. Anonymous12 September 2008 at 14:52

    Both are 644 (pam_ldap.conf is a symlink to libnss-ldap.conf) and still have no name...

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  3. stezz12 September 2008 at 15:03

    On my machine(s) they are 2 different files. That might be the problem for you.

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  4. Anonymous10 November 2008 at 00:28

    I currently have this exact problem.

    # ls -l libnss-ldap.conf pam_ldap.conf
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 root openldap 9815 2008-11-09 17:05 libnss-ldap.conf
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 root openldap 9035 2008-11-09 17:05 pam_ldap.conf

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  5. stezz10 November 2008 at 10:06

    This actually worked for me on etch.

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  6. Anonymous24 October 2009 at 00:57

    My permissions were fine. This came out of the blue. I only had to restart nscd and everything was fine.

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  7. Anonymous20 November 2009 at 16:58

    I didn't have nscd installed. A quick install later the username showed up as expected.

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  8. Kevin Cantu21 August 2010 at 02:02

    Simple advice that was very helpful. Thanks!

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  9. Anonymous5 June 2013 at 12:12

    Installing nscd helped. thanks

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