(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)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1012147 Title: lightdm: no graphical login for nis user Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “nis” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1012147/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

