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unity-greeter package

  1. Bug #1044251
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1044251

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Reinhard Tartler (siretart) wrote : Re: [Bug 1044251] Re: Unable to login - Password input box does not appear

On Do, Sep 06, 2012 at 19:47:25 (CEST), Michael Terry wrote:

> Can't reproduce on my normal non-NFS setup, so the NFS bit must be
> important.
>
> I would not at all be surprised if unity-greeter is responsible for
> this. Is there an easy way to fake NFS /home without actually doing
> it?

You could try to install an nfs server on localhost and mount from
there. However, I'd be a bit surprised if that actually worked.

Setting up nfs is really super easy:

apt-get install nfs-kernel-server
mkdir -p /srv/nfs/home
echo /srv/nfs <clientip>(rw,async) | tee /etc/exports
exportfs -rv
# server done, you might want to create the actual home directory with
# correct owner and permissions, though

on the client:
sudo apt-get install nfs-common
sudo mount <serverip>:/srv/nfs/home /home
#client done

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4