> But I cannot login to the GNOME 3 Desktop on the client. I used the > netinstall ISO image of Ubuntu. During installation, I have chose > "Ubuntu GNOME Desktop" as the only desktop. > > So my display manager is gdm3.
It sounds as if GDM has its own PAM module that isn't configured to use SSSD. Check out /etc/pam.d/gdm or similar and see if it includes the "common-*" modules (and verify that they include the SSSD libraries in their stacks). You can compare it to the SSH module. Regards, j -- Manage your subscription for the Freeipa-users mailing list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users Go to http://freeipa.org for more info on the project