*** 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
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No admin menus with NIS users
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** Changed in: Ubuntu
Status: Needs Info = Rejected
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No admin menus with NIS users
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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
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No admin menus with NIS users
https://launchpad.net/bugs/33727
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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
this might be a little out of date but 1) I can confirm the menus still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
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No admin menus with NIS users
This surely has to do with the fact that NIS users don't get sound
either.
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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
