I forgot to update this, but in dapper as of a few weeks ago this now seems to be fixed. In gnome 2.14 there seems to be some better error handling.
I will list some gotcha here for google to find and hopefully help others: * you must use TLS/SSL or gdm will refuse to use ldap auth - double check that is using tls/ssl * Double check your user permissions in ~/ - chmod go-wx ~/.dmrc and chmod go-x ~/ (minimum) I also found it seems to be a little faster with nscd (in universe and little broken) and "files ldap" in my nsswitch instead of "ldap files" which I suspect because the queries are cached the system accounts/groups are not failing ldap lookup before being checked in files. I still have a spare box I can throw breezy on if it will help, but I am pretty confident it is fixed in dapper. -- GDM login hangs when using ldap https://launchpad.net/bugs/20994 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
