[K12OSN] Ubuntu LTSP cannot authenticating to LDAP through GDM, but works with ssh

[Glenn Arnold]

John,

To answer your question on directory structure, so far in my environment
it is not an issue on the breezy ltsp box.  I have not had problems with
students accounts login with strange errors on desktop.  The desktop
settings are coming from breezy box, but the home directory is mount
through nfs to my redhat es 3.0 server.  The only issue I have had when
comes to strange errors is with my teacher and staff accounts logging
into the box.  The error they get is something like this $HOME/.dmrc can
not find or write to file. Please set file rights to 644.  Click OK on
the error and it lets you in.  I think why this is happening is I had a
fat finger about a year ago in the staff home directory and accidently
reset the rights or owner of the staff folders and did not reset the
properly for the .dmrc file.  I will keep everybody posted.

-Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: John Baillie [mailto:jbaillie at stmarys-school.org] 
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 3:13 PM
To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Ubuntu LTSP cannot authenticating to LDAP through
GDM,but works with ssh

Glenn Arnold wrote:
> I am trying to setup a LTSP server with Breezy that authenticates to
> LDAP and mounts home drives from a different server. When I use GDM to
> login I cannot login to the server, but if I secure shell to the
server
> using ldap authentication it authenticates and mounts the home drive
> from the other server with nfs. What do you have to do to the GDM
config
> files tell it to use LDAP authentication or what did I not configure
in
> my pam files to allow this to work?
> 
> Thanks
> -Glenn
> 
> 
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Glenn,

Take a look at the following link near the bottom of the page.

http://www.usefulinc.com/edd/blog/contents/2005/09/25-ldap/read


I have been experimenting with Ubuntu for about a month now. Not ready 
to make the big switch at school yet but it's looking good.
I was wondering if there are issues with share /home with Fedora and 
Ubuntu being the directory structure is not the same on the two.

John

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