Re: libnss-ldap breaks gdm and screen saver?

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu>]

>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:

>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
    Matt> A quick look at the source will show that that is not true.
    Matt> Both gdm and xscreensaver use PAM (you said so about
    Matt> xscreensaver yourself).  If non-PAM programs work OK, the
    Matt> problem probably has something to do with PAM.  Check

    Brian> No, this is a problem with NSS support, not PAM support.

What credentials are you using to bind to openldap?  Are you using
GSSAPI SASL?  If so you may not be able to read the keytab as
non-root.