I've added a "greeter-show-manual-login" option to lightdm 1.1.7 so a
system administrator can indicate to the the greeter that it should
always show a manual username option.  In the branch lp:~robert-ancell
/unity-greeter/bug-844044 I've proposed support for this in Unity
Greeter which would have the default install show as in the screenshot
below.

However, this does not solve this request of this bug.  The request is to add a 
specific "Network" option.  There are two issues with this currently:
a) We cannot tell what the system administrator has configured PAM to do, thus 
we cannot detect if this machine can or cannot access network accounts.
b) We cannot restrict this "Network" entry to only network accounts (*).  So 
the naming is confusing.

(*) techincally not true as we could make a special PAM service that
only allowed network logins, however I don't think this is really what
this bug is requesting.

** Attachment added: "default-with-manual.png"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-greeter/+bug/844044/+attachment/2832863/+files/default-with-manual.png

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