[K12OSN] K12ltsp login

[Dan Young]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
> 2009/1/14 Bob Mead <bmead at lane.k12.or.us>:
>> I'm working on a new k12ltsp 5EL installation. So far I have the server
>> loaded, its mounting users' /home dirs from a remote machine via nfs,
>>  authenticating via our remote ldap server (FINALLY!!!, thanks Dan and
>> others) and now when I login as a user I get "User's $Home/.dmrc file is
>> being ignored (etc)" I googled the answer to this error and found that I
>> need to login as me and chmod the permissions to 644. I tried to do this
>
> Try adding this to the [security] stanza of /etc/gdm/custom.conf:
>
> RelaxPermissions=1

Whoops, forgot to mention that you'll need to do a "gdm-restart" as
root to have that take effect. This will _terminate all sessions_ and
log out all users, so wait until everyone is logged off.

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Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us>
Multnomah ESD - Technology Services
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