[Cbsupport] LDAP problem?

[Steve Paynter]

Hi all.

I just installed postgresql on a CB machine (hostname="mandrake").
No obvious errors.

But now I get (vaguely familiar) problems:
 * "whoami" from my account says:
   "whoami: cannot find username for UID 1168"
   but works fine from root.
 * "ls -l" shows only numeric uids and gids, not names.
 * xterm windows disappear immediately after creation.

In simpler times I might have suspected /etc/passwd or /etc/group.
Fyi:
 * the permissions look ok:
   "-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          886 Dec 15 21:20 /etc/passwd"
   "-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          510 May  4  2002 /etc/group"
 * the respective entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/group look ok:
   "postgres:x:31:32:postgres:/var/lib/postgres:/bin/sh"
   "postgres:x:32:"
   (and the postgres uid and gid aren't conflicting with anything else.)

Am I right to suspect LDAP?  How to fix?

Steve.


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Steve Paynter
sbpaynter at yahoo.com.au
mobile 0403-922-246

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