Still a problem in 11.04. This prevents Ubuntu from being seriously considered in some large-scale commercial deployments. Active Directory often uses a first.last format for usernames, and if Ubuntu cannot authenticate against all servers, it will be used less.
This seems to be a policy decision that ensures compatibility with some programs. adduser works just fine, and in a level 3 boot, no problems occur. If adduser first.last is invoked and a reboot occurs, the gdm login screen breaks: when any of the available users are clicked, they perform the expected collapsing visual effect, then reappear. Further deletion of the offending user in level three does not unbreak the gdm. Luckily, I tested this out on a virtual machine, so could revert to an earlier state with little difficulty, and thus did not exhaustively test how broken gdm was. Given that this seems a problem with gnome 2, maybe the solution is just a quick rewrite of the gdm login script to sanitize the handling of usernames. If anyone can show that this problem is solved in gnome 3 or another windows manager, I'd be interested. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/546811 Title: Ubiquity in Lucid beta 1 does not correctly show warning dialog in user-creation step To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/546811/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
