Excuse my typo... I had meant to change that to common-*, and never did. I have another datapoint for you as well. Reversing the order of the statements in /etc/nsswitch.conf enables GDM to work correctly... i.e. "compat ldap" rather than "ldap compat".
Thanks for your time! -- GDM does not start correctly when using libnss-ldap / libpam-ldap on edgy https://launchpad.net/bugs/61430 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs