On the client machine, while logged in as root, I ran:
su – user2
user2 is an account on the server, but not on the client. The client should use ldap to authenticate on the server. It sort of works. I did get logged in to /home/user2 which is the correct home directory. But, I got these messages:
[root@client]# su – user2
id: cannot find name for user ID 102
id: cannot find name for group ID 100
id: cannot find name for user ID 102
[I have no name!@client ~]$
I just added the following group id info:
dn: cn=users,dc=ibmprint,dc=uchicago,dc=edu
objectClass: posixGroup
objectClass: top
cn: users
gidNumber: 100
So, perhaps I need to make a new ID string?
SOLUTION: Make sure that nscd is running.