After an RHEL5 system has been configured to log users in against an LDAP server, and the LDAP based user is successfully able to log in at the console, an attempt is made to log into X using gdm. The attempt fails immediately, and the following message is logged to .xsession-errors: localuser:minfrin being added to access control list No profile for user 'minfrin' found There is no clear indication as to which program is logging this message, or even if this message is relevant. The user directory is empty - it has just been created from scratch.
Lots of digging uncovers this IRC log: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2006/10/01/%23edubuntu.txt It mentions that a package called "sabayon" might somehow be involved. Sabayon is installed on the machine, but rpm -qi doesn't reveal anything specific about what sabayon does. Sabayon has an entry in /etc/pam.d, which links to /etc/pam.d/config-auth. The only entry in config-auth to do with LDAP is the "auth" section in pam. I suspect that system-config-authentication isn't setting the /etc/pam.d/config-auth file correctly, need to dig further.
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