GDM login asks only password on login failure

[R. Scott Belford]

Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 07:46:08AM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote:
>> This is a *critical* *bug* that is undermining an otherwise successful 
>> installation.  Its presence denies the teacher the most fundamental 
>> right in a classroom - to correct a mistake.
> 
> I have a few show stoppers at this time.  I don't mind spending time
> trying to resolve them, but since I'm new to the thin client setup I'm
> killing a lot of time just trying to find basic information.
> 
> Our school uses a lot of on-line resources and it's common to need a
> working flash setup.

Have you used Synaptic, the package manager, to search for flash?  If 
you install nonfree installer, you will have Adobe's flash.  Search for 
j2re and you can install the blackdown java package and the mozilla plugin.

> 
> And, well, not being able to get our existing "fleet" of old iMacs to
> boot off the network is kind of a problem, too.

Apparently building a ppc chroot on Edubuntu is not as easy as it was 
with the K12LTSP.  You could boot ppc clients from that platform, but I 
don't know if it is possible with Edubuntu.  Ltsp-build-client --arch 
ppc does not work.

> 
>> I have dug through documentation and googled all I can, but I cannot see 
>> how to change the default login behavior.
> 
> Do you understand how the parts work to get the login on the clients?
> I have a gdm.conf on my server but not in /opt/ltsp/i386/etc.  This
> just doesn't seem like that complicated of a problem -- after all the
> login on the server works correctly so I'd think that login setup
> could be used on the clients.

That's a good point.  The login on the server is "normal".  I am not at 
a terminal to look for different config files.

> 
> 
>> I am watching teachers lose precious class time helping the students
>> with this.  After 4 years of the K12LTSP, this is becoming a
>> show-stopper for them.
> 
> You mean the move to Gutsy from K12LTSP?
> 

Yes.  Well, actually the migration to Feisty from K12LTSP and then the 
upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy.  I have put this one class through a 
serious journey of Edubuntu bug-hunting.

--scott