Why is my user prompt different than the current user logged in?

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I am kinda stumped with this one.

I setup an OpenLDAP server for centralized login to all of the VM servers … and a test VBOX Ubuntu Desktop.

Getting LDAP authentication to work was not terribly hard.

The thing I cannot figure out is why the server takes my login and allows me access but then bumps to the only unprivileged user on the box.

For example I have a machine (Ubuntu Desktop 11.04) with a user called User. When I login with my LDAP account as ianc it lets me but when I go to a prompt and type whoami it returns User.

What the heck is going on?

I thought I was logged in as ianc

The same thing happens on my file server which I setup the same test on.

I login and says I am fs01 not ianc.

Help?

Oh yeah I got this picture of my test VBOX desktop

Desktop

Answer

Apparently my user account overlapped with the local user account’s UID, my UID was 1000 and the local user was 1000 once I changed it I am now represented correctly.

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