For posterity, I had to comment out some stuff in /etc/pam.d/lightdm. In particular, these two lines
#auth requisite pam_nologin.so #auth sufficient pam_succeed_if.so user ingroup nopasswdlogin before @include common-auth seemed to be causing a problem (before I added #'s). On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Todd O'Bryan <toddobr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the advice. I'll give it a shot. > > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Rob Owens <row...@ptd.net> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 05:13:46PM -0400, Todd O'Bryan wrote: >>> Hey all, >>> >>> Over the summer, I decided to switch to Xfce for a lighter-weight >>> desktop experience. Unfortunately, I'm having a problem getting it >>> working, just on my server. >>> >>> Local users work fine, and LDAP users work fine using "su" or "ssh", >>> but when I try to log in at the GUI with a user from the LDAP >>> directory, the login screen disappears, the desktop wallpaper shows >>> up, and the system hangs. Apparently, this is a known problem, since I >>> found: >>> >> No idea if this applies to your problem or not, but on Debian I've >> noticed differences with the way different ldap packages work. >> Specifically, I have better luck with libnss-ldapd and libpam-ldapd, >> rather than libnss-ldap and libpam-ldap (no 'd' at the end). >> >> I'm pretty sure you can switch between the two without changing config >> files, so you might want to give that a try to see if it's an LDAP issue >> rather than an LTSP issue. >> >> -Rob >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! >> Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies >> and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step >> tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss >> For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
