[Bug 956848] Re: pam_mkhomedir.so fails to create homedir in precise

2012-04-05 Thread Greg Newton
Fabulous work! Thanks so much Robert. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/956848 Title: pam_mkhomedir.so fails to create homedir in precise To manage notifications about this bug go to: h

[Bug 956848] Re: pam_mkhomedir.so fails to create homedir in precise

2012-03-29 Thread Greg Newton
I think I can be a bit more precise than #15; the break occurs at lightdm version 1.1.6-0ubuntu1 - at least on my 64bit VM. As far as my tests show, the last version of lightdm to work is 1.1.4.is.1.1.3-0ubuntu3. That is, if I have an up-to-date precise VM (including lightdm 1.1.9) and I uninstal

[Bug 720401] [NEW] LDAP session created with no password required

2011-02-16 Thread Greg Newton
*** This bug is a security vulnerability *** Public security bug reported: I've been working on getting a small lab up and running on Ubuntu 10.10 using LDAP authentication. I'm using the stock versions found in the repos (e.g. nslcd v.0.7.6) an I've run in to an interesting problem: ldap users c

[Bug 61381] Re: gnome-settings-daemon crashes at login

2006-11-15 Thread Greg Newton
I started a (lonely) thread at ubuntuforums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=290822 that details my problem. One apparently unusual feature of my problem is that I see no errors anywhere and am unable to post a backtrace. I've had this happen on 5 successive rebuilds over the last few wee