On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 10:51:08PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Andreas B. Mundt] > > How long? I think entering the username triggers autofs (to read the > > user's configuration, for example which desktop he want's to start by > > default). What if someone takes 15 seconds to enter his password, and > > someone else needs only 3 seconds? > > This do not sound right. Setups using pam_mount work, and I believe PAM > is only invoked after the password is entered. Because of this, I > believe the users home directory isn't accessed before the password is > entered. >
I did not say that pam_mount doesn't work. I believe gdm tries to access the home directory. If it doesn't succeed, this is non-fatal. However we don't have to argue about that, it should be easy to check: Login on a terminal on a workstation as root, check if the home directories are not yet mounted and then login on gdm as a user and carefully check when the home directory is accessed/mounted using the terminal. > What are you seeing that make you believe PAM is invoked too late? > Could it be some other pam module called earlier in the stack that > causes the effect? Hm? Are we talking about the same issue, making a diskless workstation work without machine credentials? Best regards, Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120206075235.GA4158@fuzi