Indicator shows "Guest" instead of real name when using nis

[Kees Bakker]

The system is configured to use NIS. If I login as a "local" user I see the full name of that user. But if I login as a "nis" user I only see "Guest" in the indicator in the upper right corner.

This is new since oneiric. On natty we see the user name as expected.

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Indicator-session doesn't support NIS yet.

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

Indicator-session gets its list of users from LigthtDM ... adding it to the Affects list.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

I'm not sure how to reproduce this, can someone run me through the steps to do so?

[Kees Bakker (keestux)]

In brief term, you first need a NIS environment. That is, a network with a NIS server and clients that are configured to use NIS for passwd and group, etc.

What you mostly see in NIS environments is that filesystems are NFS mounts, for example /home or /usr/users or whatever.

Possibly you can do this all on one machine, for testing purpose.

If this is all up and running then login from a client, using a login that is not defined local but on the NIS server.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1024290