[OpenAFS] OpenAFS with GDM in Ubuntu 22.04 (or 20.04)?

[jukka.tuominen@finndesign.fi]

Thank you Dirk,

sad to hear, but at least I know now not to waste more time banging my 
head against the wall.

SDDM is new to me, I'll look into it.

br, jukka


Dirk Heinrichs kirjoitti 2022-08-28 10:59:
> jukka.tuominen@finndesign.fi:
> 
>> I wonder if anybody has OpenAFS client working with GDM in Ubuntu 
>> 22.04 (or 20.04)? That is, allowing users to log into their homedirs 
>> graphically.
> 
> You can't. Most of the Gnome stuff nowadays heavily depends on
> systemctl --user which doesn't work when $HOME is in /afs (because
> systemd starts the systemctl --user separate from the user session and
> thus it doesn't get a token at login). Unfortunately, systemd folks
> are not willing to fix this nonsense.
> 
> SDDM works fine, though.
> 
> HTH...
> 
>     Dirk