Other ... option is missing

[LiohMoeller]

I have tested the latest version of LightDM from:

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/+archive/ppa

and noticed that the 'Other ...' option is no longer available. This is necessary to e.g. allow login of LDAP users.

For those, the wallpaper preview also might not work, at least as long as they do not have local home directories.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, dropping the "other" by default is a design decision (done in unity-greeter r236) based on the fact that the entry showed to be confusing for desktop users and that corporate setups which need ldap login should be able to deal with custom configurations to enable that (it's a simple configuration change)

[LiohMoeller (liohmoeller)]

Ok, thanks for the update. Could you please point out the config option?

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

[SeatDefaults]
greeter-hide-users=true

That should switch the login to a traditional "username" "password" field. Does that work for you?

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

That's in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

[Tobias Wolf (towolf)]

> [SeatDefaults]
> greeter-hide-users=true
>
> That should switch the login to a traditional "username" "password" field. Does that work for you?

No, sorry, that looks really bad. Then you only get "Other" and "Guest"

Before you got the "cached" users or frequently logged in users *and* the item "Other".

Can you make it possible to somehow achieve the old behaviour?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Tobias Wolf (towolf)]

I mean, if it didn't say Other it would be okay too. Just an entry field, but not labeled "Other", when it's the only field there is.

[perpetualrabbit (perpetualrabbit)]

I am really worried by this total disregard for `corporate users´, concluding from your remark:

"corporate setups which need ldap login should be able to deal with custom configurations to enable that (it's a simple configuration change)"

Really? I am a sysadmin at Leiden University, and every new version of Ubuntu I have to deal with UNDOCUMENTED things like this. I have to scan numerous webpages for scraps of informations for how to correctly configure lightdm. Not to mention that I am forced to inflict yet another user interface on my (hundreds) users. Which only works so-so.

[jwm (jwm-angrymonkey)]

What we all actually want, configuration-wise is some combination of these three (four?) directives in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf:

greeter-hide-users
greeter-show-manual-login
greeter-allow-guest
allow-guest

I've kept greeter-hide-users as true, but they don't show NIS users, nor does it appear to show recent logins, either. Probably useless on the network, therefore. greeter-show-manual-login lists a user called "Login", which allows a user name to be entered. I guess, given the brevity of the interface design, that 'Login' would be a bit confusing, but it's not a huge leap of lateral thinking to have simply renamed that option, 'Someone else...'. I guess dropping it by default is just what happens when you optimise for new users at the expense of everyone else.

greeter-allow-guest and allow-guest seem to be redundant. Perhaps there is some way to start a guest session from the greeter even though the greeter displays no means to do so. Who knows? The only docs we have is an example config file with some comments in it, all of which may be wildly out of date. I set both to false to banish that nonsense in my networked environment.