Multiple issues: LDAP/LightDM/SLIM/Unity

[Stephan Schöffel]

This is very inconvenient, since I don't want to tell all users the roor 
password.





Am 19.01.2012 17:20, schrieb nandan appajappa:
> Hi Stephen
>
>    In SLIM login manager you cannot directly reboot/shutdown from the 
> unity menu, it will just logout the user.
> So you can reboot your machine by typing "reboot" at username field 
> and root password in the password field. And  shutdown your machine by 
> typing "halt" at username field and root password..
>
>
> Nandan.A
>
>
> 19 ????? 2012 07:30 PM ????, Stephan Schöffel <schoeffel at fh-bingen.de 
> <mailto:schoeffel at fh-bingen.de>> ???????????:
>
>     Hi there,
>
>     I'm facing a couple of issues on 11.10 that are related to one
>     another. Inititally I tried to let users authenticate themselves
>     against LDAP. This does work properly with LightDM. The login
>     manager seems to connect to the LDAP server and even shows the
>     correct name entries for that user. Upon login though, the screen
>     becomes black for one or two seconds and than returns to the login
>     screen. I switch login manager to SLIM. This let's users login to
>     a unity desktop. But then users no longer are able to
>     reboot/shutdown the machine. After hitting reboot/shutdown the
>     user is just logged out and is back at the SLIM loginscreen. Any
>     suggestions?
>
>     --Stephan
>
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