[Bug 73440] Re: GDM does not accept Windows domain logins

[Sebastien Bacher]

>From upstream:

"Note that GDM supports "custom lists" where you can specify additional combo
boxes or listviews showing a list of choices.

Refer to section 8.2.11 here:

  http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/docs/2.16/thememanual.html

Why don't you just use this in your theme and then in your PAM module refer to
the <var>/gdm/:0.GreeterInfo file to find out what the value was set to?  This
seems like it would be a bit cleaner than hacking the GDM theme since GDM
already supports this kind of mechanism.

Perhaps you want to add a feature that forces the user to enter a value in the
userlist before the user is allowed to enter a username/password.  An
enhancement like this would be generic and fairly easy to code.  Probably just
add a tag element to specify that the username/password entry field will be
insensitive until the user picks a value in the custom list?

You might also want to enhance the custom lists so that rather than having to
hardcode the possible values in the theme, it gets the values by running a
script.

I think enhancing the existing custom list feature is probably a better and
more generic way to support the features you want rather than hardcoding
something specific for domains.

>From a long-term perspective, adding to PAM the ability to support combo lists
would be a good idea and avoid the need to use custom lists, but adding such an
enhancement to PAM would probably take some time.

What do you think?"

"I think Custom Lists is the right approach to get the feature you want without
needing to hack the GUI more directly.  So closing this bug report."

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GDM does not accept Windows domain logins
https://launchpad.net/bugs/73440