Ian Reinhart Geiser on Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:32:15 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Ldap Auth and debian


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On Wednesday 13 November 2002 04:03 pm, Stephen Gran wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:16:33PM -0500, Ian Reinhart Geiser said:
> > okay following those directions i can now login, but at my prompt it says
> > "I have no name" instead of my user name.  This is very odd, because the
> > logs say that geiseri (uid=500) logged in.  but doing a whoami says:
> > I have no name!@voix:~$ whoami
> > whoami: cannot find username for UID 500
> >
> > Am i missing something very basic here?
> >
> > Thanks
> > - -ian reinhart geiser
>
> Well, for starters, aren't all user UID's >= 1000?  That UID of 500 is
> probably part of the problem, although I'm not sure where the UID is
> being mapped.  If it's LDAP reporting a UID of 500, the entry is wrong
> for that user.  If LDAP itself is UID 500, then there may be a
> configuration problem returning LDAP's UID instead of the user's.  Hmmm.
No, all of my UIDs are between 500 and 1000.  So the UID is correct.  Does 
debians ldap automagicly do something wonky with certain UIDs?

What even more odd is if i finger geiser as root i get the correct ldap 
information, but as geiseri i get user not found.

maby its  a perms problem?

- -ian reinhart geiser
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