lightdm: no graphical login for nis user

[alex jordan]

If I install a Ubuntu 12.04 system from scratch, everything works fine, but if I want to use nis package to allow nis user to login, I cannot. I have to insert the following line into /etc/lightdm/lighdm.conf:

greeter-show-manual-login=true

Otherwise one cannot login as a nis user from login manager lightdm. From my point of view, this has to be done automatically during installation of nis or ldap client packages.

Alex

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[Robie Basak (racb)]

I'm not sure how the nis or ldap packages would integrate with lightdm here. Could lightdm provide a .d conf directory, or just default to manual login when NIS or LDAP (or something non-"compat" in nsswitch.conf) is in use?

[Robie Basak (racb)]

(And the mere presence of packages perhaps shouldn't change behaviour, either. We'd need to actually detect that NIS or LDAP are really in use)

[alex jordan (urgretl)]

Usually if I install nis package, I am going to use it. So what's the problem to trigger a lightdm.conf entry??? Btw. it is much more irritating to have no possipility to login, than to have an additional manual one.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Thomas Ribbrock (emgaron+ubuntu)]

Under 13.10beta2 (lightdm 1.8.0), this bug is made even worse as lightdm ignores the
greeter-show-manual-login=true
setting completely => NIS users cannot log in at all.
See bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1234856

[KrautOS (krautos)]

Under a standard desktop install of trusty, i don't have a /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. Any clues on that?