Bug 444934

Summary:	gdm does not display usernames stored in LDAP
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Maxwell Bottiger <sleepylight>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	jmccann
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	cschalle, rstrode
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Description Maxwell Bottiger 2008-05-02 02:21:02 UTC

Description of problem:
GDM is not displaying the usernames of people stored in the LDAP database.  This
worked in Fedora 7 and 8.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-2.21.10-0.2008.04.18.2.fc9.x86_64

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot to runlevel 5
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
The only user listed is "Other"

Expected results:
List of users

Additional info:
The login works just fine, but you must select other, then type in a user name.
 The user list is not displayed.

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-05-02 03:50:43 UTC

Hi,

This is by design, since ldap set ups often have thousands or tens of thousands
of users.

Once you've logged in as a user, it will be remembered though. Also, as of 

gdm-2.21.10-0.2008.04.22.1

the "Other" user is automatically selected.