Timed login? Asking for password?!

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le vendredi 16 juin 2006 à 18:25 +0800, Joel Bryan Juliano a écrit :
> I was about to take my 3rd prelim exam this day, then the IT guys from
> my school called me up for an emergency. They was asking why does all
> of the computers was asking for the admin password?, isn't it risky to
> give that password to more the 300 students who will take their exams
> online. I asked them why does this happen, then I rushed to the IT
> dept, and troubleshoot the problem, it seems that the newest update
> from the apt-proxy made this happen......... arrg, I still have 3 more
> exams today... what happened with the updates? is it intended be
> supposed to be that way?? And then if it is, man, I'm in big trouble. 

Hi,

It looks like
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/49940 which is a
gdm issue and has been fixed today. Note that it asks for the user
password, not the admin one. Does the upgrade fixes the issue for you
too?


Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher