[Bug 104957] Re: users with no password can't log in with gdm

[Flabdablet]

On 2 November 2011 01:41, Michael Basse <104957 at bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> why should it be a bug instead of a security-feature?

Because the policy defined in /etc/securetty for local graphical
terminals is inconsistent with the policy defined there for local text
terminals, and because the lack of wildcard support in the code that
parses /etc/securetty will continue to cause surprises for users whose
local ttys don't fit one of the device/display names defined
explicitly there.

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Title:
  users with no password can't log in with gdm

Status in GDM: The Gnome Display Manager:
  Fix Released
Status in The Gnome System Tools:
  Invalid
Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “pam” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “shadow” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “gdm” package in Baltix:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gdm

  Steps to reproduce:

  *Use the 'passwd -d <username>' command to have a user that is not protected with a password
  *This user will be able to log in with in command line without being prompted to give a password, but will be unable to log in from gdm, because it waits for a password but it does not accept any (nor an empty one nor the old password) :(

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Apr 10 00:59:41 2007
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
  Package: gnome-panel 2.18.0-0ubuntu3
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcCmdline: gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1
  ProcCwd: /home/tomi
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
   LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-panel
  Uname: Linux szelltomi 2.6.20-14-generic #2 SMP Mon Apr 2 20:37:49 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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