NetworkManage and ypbind

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 05/06/2009 03:26 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:

> I don't know that I'd call it a bug.  NM works okay (when you ignore its
> other bugs) IF you've got a desktop session going.  Problem is, if you
> authenticate off LDAP or NIS/NIS+, you'll never get a desktop session
> because you can't authenticate.  There's the catch-22 of it.

Yes, filing a bug report would be appropriate here. Please do.

> As far as documentation is concerned...I did offer my services to write
> a man page, HOWTO and basic user docs for NM, but my offers were either
> ignored or never reached NM's maintainers.  I know I can do it on the
> side (because I'm a nice chap), but at the time NM was a frantically
> moving target and anything I wrote was obsoleted by changes made in NM
> in the next version.  I did the human thing and punted.

I am not sure whether you offered your services. If you just posted to
it's listed, it never reached them since they aren't subscribed here.
You need to post to the upstream list at

http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Rahul