Comment 8 for bug 75602

I've configured an Ubuntu box to authenticate using Microsoft Active Directory through pam_winbind.so. Domain users can use pluggable devices through dbus/hal because I've used pam_group.so to assign such users to plugdev group. It worked just fine. Now I'm using Gentoo and I can't do the same, it's not working. Is it possible that some Ubuntu developer have solved the problem? My partial solution in Gentoo was to configure /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf to assign priviledges to group "domain users" and to modify /etc/init.d/dbus to start after samba/winbind. But there is a problem: any short-timed failure on network connection prevents dbus for knowing who are "domain users", so this users can't automount pluggable devices after any of these failures, they have to wait for my presence so I can restart dbus daemon, and consequently, all GNOME environment. I think this issue should be solved as soon as possible, because is fatal for remote authentication mechanism (LDAP, Kerberos, Active Directory) when network users can't use something as common as a pendrive.