[Bug 553142] Re: gdm does not obey NIS settings for user groups

[Bernhard M.]

Now I tried NIS on a current lucid VirtualBox install and found ssh to be working there right away and only gdm being broken.
When capturing via tcpdump the YPSERV communication I noticed many identical queries for passwd.byname so I tried on both systems: aptitude install nscd .
What is interesting is that running nscd helped with the ssh problem, but did not help with the gdm problem. So there could still be two different issues there. 
Also worth noting: running nscd reproducably breaks NIS-groups on console(tty) login, su and ssh-login, even with the nsswitch.conf work-around - but only on the VirtualBox system.


special setup needed to reproduce:

# must have NIS server (ours is on ...0.240 version 3.17-17 from debian/lenny/i686)
aptitude install nis
echo ypserver 192.168.0.240 > /etc/yp.conf
echo +:::::: >> /etc/passwd
echo +::: >> /etc/group
/etc/init.d/nis restart

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gdm does not obey NIS settings for user groups
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553142
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