[plug] NIS - GDM

[Luke Brown]

>> Having some problems getting NIS users to login to a brand new redhat
>> box. They get into the console fine and their home directories are
>> readable and writable however logins stall after the gdm
>> authenication stage in both kde and gnome. Nothing interested is
>> written to the /var/log/messages /var/gdm logs
>
> What about $HOME/.xsession-errors?


Yep, checked it, completely blank.
Works ok in failsafe...

>
> Nope, but I've had similar problems with LDAP authentication when
> libpam_ldap was set up right but libnss_ldap wasn't.
>

doesnt seem to be an auth issue as if we type the password in wrong it
gives a password error