[Bug 33727] Re: No admin menus with NIS users
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 40309 *** ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 40309 Admin menus not visible with alternative admin groupname -- No admin menus with NIS users https://launchpad.net/bugs/33727 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 33727] Re: No admin menus with NIS users
Your bug lacks information we would need to investigate further. We are now going to close the bug - please reopen if you have more information at hand. ** Changed in: Ubuntu Status: Needs Info = Rejected -- No admin menus with NIS users https://launchpad.net/bugs/33727 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 33727] Re: No admin menus with NIS users
That doesn't really sounds like a GNOME bug. Can anybody elaborate what could be changed to resolve the issue? ** Changed in: meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: meta-gnome2 = None Status: Unconfirmed = Needs Info -- No admin menus with NIS users https://launchpad.net/bugs/33727 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 33727] Re: No admin menus with NIS users
If you add your nis user to the admin group in etc /etc/group then it works. (At least for me.) I added the nis user(s) to all groups the initial user was added. I have seen a bug report that it dose not work with the admin group over the network, I can nither confirm nor deny that case. With local system groups and remote users it works. On a side note I keep the initial user as administrator in case of network failure. That is way safer than using the real root. -- No admin menus with NIS users https://launchpad.net/bugs/33727 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 33727] Re: No admin menus with NIS users
this might be a little out of date but 1) I can confirm the menus still don't show up in a NIS set up and 2) the groups for audio, etc, I took care of in /etc/security/group.conf with: gdm;*;*;Al-2400;cdrom,floppy,video,audio,plugdev -- No admin menus with NIS users https://launchpad.net/bugs/33727 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 33727] Re: No admin menus with NIS users
This surely has to do with the fact that NIS users don't get sound either. -- No admin menus with NIS users https://launchpad.net/bugs/33727 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 33727] Re: No admin menus with NIS users
The sound issue has to do with group membership. The only users that get sound are members of the audio group. You would have to set up nis to allow passing low GIDs and make the user on the server a member of audio (gid 29). Ubuntu (Debian) use a whole bunch of these... You need to be a member of cdrom to use CDs, dialout to use a modem, plugdev to use removable media like pen drives. This is a PITA with NIS because you have to manually add users to a bunch of groups and potentially dangerous since you need to export the low GIDs. Not a biggie on my home network, but... LDAP should handle these issues much more elegantly, but in its current form, it's a pain to set up, administer and use in a SOHO environment (read: overkill). Unfortunately, adding your NIS user to admin doesn't get you the menus, apparently because access to them is granted or denied locally BEFORE the NIS GIDs have been checked. All of the others (cdrom, plugdev, etc. work if mapped). -- No admin menus with NIS users https://launchpad.net/bugs/33727 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
