On 2 November 2011 01:41, Michael Basse <[email protected]> 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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/104957 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gdm/+bug/104957/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
