Topics to read up on would include PAM, Name Service Switch (NSS), and the getent(1) manpage (getent passwd <user>).
It sounds like you have an ldap PAM module configured, but no ldap NSS module, of which you have several options. OpenLDAP maintains one such piece of software called nssov, which is located in the contrib/slapd-modules/ directory within the source.
-- Dan White
The nsswitch.conf contains this :
passwd: files ldap shadow: files ldap group: files ldap
I don't know what other parameter should be set ...
getent passwd / group / shadow works perfectly.
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