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Bug 554032 - Domain logon with GUI browser
Domain logon with GUI browser
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.24.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-09-27 04:13 UTC by Hans Petter Jansson
Modified: 2013-11-18 14:46 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
gdm-domain-logon.patch (72.30 KB, patch)
2008-09-27 04:15 UTC, Hans Petter Jansson 		none Details | Review
updated patch (79.47 KB, patch)
2011-02-28 09:59 UTC, David Liang 		none Details | Review

Description Hans Petter Jansson 2008-09-27 04:13:53 UTC 
I've been working on a GUI logon domain browser for openSUSE, to be used with Active Directory and GDM 2.24. It calls out to wbinfo to get the list of domains and prepends the chosen domain name to the user name before passing it to the server process.

I used to maintain a patch implementing similar functionality for GDM 2.20, but it was not taken upstream because it was basically impossible to do cleanly. Since 2.24 is more modular, I'm hoping we can get this one in, though.

I haven't actually tested this patch with AD, but I've verified that the domain\user string makes it all the way to the PAM stack. Hopefully I can get someone who knows something about configuring an AD server to test it soon.
Comment 1 Hans Petter Jansson 2008-09-27 04:15:32 UTC 
Created attachment 119465 [details] [review]
gdm-domain-logon.patch
Comment 2 Hans Petter Jansson 2009-04-06 22:05:55 UTC 
The patch has been deployed on SUSE Linux and the enterprise variants, and people seem to be using it successfully.
Comment 3 David Liang 2011-02-28 09:59:47 UTC 
Created attachment 182073 [details] [review]
updated patch

Hi, this version is based on the current gdm, the last commit is 
efd09bb4694047a29a4d7171e8358f942d6f92ed
Comment 4 Ray Strode [halfline] 2011-02-28 18:32:04 UTC 
shouldn't this go in the login window now?
Comment 5 Hans Petter Jansson 2011-02-28 19:04:02 UTC 
I guess it should.

I think last time we discussed this, a "GUI plugin" system was brought up as a way to accommodate features likes this one. Is that still how you'd like to do it?
Comment 6 Ray Strode [halfline] 2013-11-18 14:46:32 UTC 
We don't ship a greeter anymore, so closing this out.