[Sheflug] pam_ldap with GDM on Ubuntu Breezy

[Martin Gleadow <jez [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Has anyone here succeeded in getting GDM on Breezy to work with 
pam_ldap?  I can log on to the box fine at the console or with ssh so it 
looks as if the settings in /etc/pam.d/common-* are fine (and these are 
referenced in /etc/pam.d/gdm) but the graphical greeter hangs with a 
greyed out password field whenever I try to log on, either with a local 
or ldap user.

I have searched Google a fair bit for this and in various locations it 
has been mentioned as pam misconfiguration and a  bug in GDM - the same 
settings I am using now worked in Hoary absolutely fine.  Some sites 
mention that GDM requires start_tls in /etc/libnss-ldap.conf but since 
my ldap server is not using tls this does not help.

If I switch to using KDM I can log in without a problem, so I think it 
is an issue with GDM in Breezy requiring tls when using pam_ldap - 
shouldn't it just use pam and leave such configuration options to the 
underlying modules, being that is the point of pam?

MG.

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