Confirmed in gdm 2.18.0-0ubuntu4.
/var/log/auth.log provides insight. I tested this with a user account
named peter. Results below on attempted GDM login...
Apr 9 23:59:04 khermans-laptop gdm[9757]: (pam_securetty) access denied: tty
':20' is not secure !
Apr 9 23:59:04 khermans-laptop gdm[9757]: (pam_securetty) access denied: tty
':20' is not secure !
Apr 9 23:59:04 khermans-laptop gdm[9757]: (pam_unix) authentication failure;
logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:20 ruser= rhost= user=peter
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed
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users with no password can't log in with gdm
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/104957
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