On HPUX ls -l doesn't resolve UIDs or GIDs into names (4259939)

When doing an ls -l in a directory with Unix Enabled QAS users, the UIDs and GIDs are not being resolved into names.

e.g.
bash# /sbin/ls -l
drwx------   2 1001       1000          8192 Dec 17  2009 vasuser

However, running a # /usr/bin/ls -l does resolve the IDs into names.

bash# /usr/bin/ls -l
drwx------   2 vasuser    vasgroup1     8192 Dec 17  2009 vasuser

This issue also occurs with other binaries such as chown. 

The ls version in /sbin/ls is statically linked, this means it is not able to call shared libraries such as NSS (Name Service Switch). This means the /sbin/ls version will only resolve users that exist in /etc/passwd. 

bash# ldd /sbin/ls
ldd: "/sbin/ls" is not a shared executable.

bash# ldd /usr/bin/ls
        libxcurses.so.1 =>      /usr/lib/hpux32/libxcurses.so.1
        libc.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/hpux32/libc.so.1
        libdl.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/hpux32/libdl.so.1

Change the default PATH variable for your users so that /usr/bin is before /sbin.

Note, if you are using QAS mapped users in /etc/passwd these users will be resolved by /sbin/ls.