Stopping GDM from auto-mounting autofs home dirs

[Brian McKee]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Michael Waltz <mwaltz at qualcomm.com> wrote:
> Noticed first in Karmic that even if the simple GDM login manager was
> enabled with no user list a lot of autofs home dirs were automatically
> mounted when the system booted. I'd like to avoid this since having
> hundreds of Ubuntu desktops hitting filers without an intent to use the
> mounts could cause a resource issue. We got around this by removing gdm2
> in Karmic and installing gdm-legacy instead, but this packages doesn't
> appear on in Lucid anymore and most likely never will.
>
> Is there a way to only have GDM mount autofs home dirs on user login?
> May be a bit slower, but the extra few seconds aren't really an issue
> for us.

Wild guess here, but is it because its looking for the users display
icon/picture to show on the login screen?
I'd try turning off face browsing and see what happens.

Brian