Tried this morning with version 1.1.6-0ubuntu1 on precise and this does indeed seem to be fixed.
Also fixed is the related problem with kerberized home directories I described over on bug #914674. Thanks and keep up the great work!! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/877766 Title: lightdm login fails with NFS home and strict (mode 0700) permissions Status in Light Display Manager: Fix Released Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “lightdm” source package in Oneiric: Triaged Bug description: Lightdm appears not to be able to log in a user if all of the following are true: 1. They've got an NFS-mounted home directory 2. NFS is configured in the usual manner; ie, root privileges do not allow access to arbitrary remote files 3. The user's home directory permissions are such that "other" cannot access the directory (ie, mode 0700) In this situation, the password is accepted and the screen clears. Rather than bringing up the desktop as expected, a couple of seconds pass and we're returned to the lightdm screen. This yielded a message in one of the /var/log/lightdm logs which I've just discovered was overwritten by subsequent successful logins. I'll recreate this and update the bug tonight. Workaround was to chmod the user's homedir to 0711 which allowed lightdm to work properly. Release is Ubuntu 11.10 with all updates as of 17 Oct 2011 at roughly 10pm EDT. Lightdm package is 1.0.1-0ubuntu6. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/877766/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
