** Changed in: unity-control-center (Ubuntu Xenial)
Status: Confirmed => In Progress
** Changed in: unity-control-center (Ubuntu Xenial)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Iain Lane (laney)
** Changed in: unity-control-center (Ubuntu Yakkety)
Status: Confirmed => In Progress
** Changed in: unity-control-center (Ubuntu Yakkety)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Iain Lane (laney)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1630156
Title:
No password needed to Log in after cancel the password and then reset
again
Status in Light Display Manager:
New
Status in OEM Priority Project:
In Progress
Status in OEM Priority Project trusty series:
Confirmed
Status in OEM Priority Project xenial series:
Confirmed
Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in unity-control-center package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Status in lightdm source package in Xenial:
Confirmed
Status in unity-control-center source package in Xenial:
In Progress
Status in lightdm source package in Yakkety:
Confirmed
Status in unity-control-center source package in Yakkety:
In Progress
Bug description:
[ Description ]
If you use unity-control-center to set the current user from "Log in
without a password" to having a password again, the user is not
removed from the 'nopasswdlogin' UNIX group, and so can log in without
a password still.
[ Test case ]
1. Open the dash, type "User Accounts", open the user accounts panel of
unity-control-center.
2. Make sure the current user (which must be an admin) is selected in the
list of user's on the left hand side.
3. Click "Unlock" at the top right, and enter the user's password.
4. Click the dots to the right of "Password", to open the dialog where you
can change the password mode.
5. In the combo box at the top, select "Log in without a password". Save the
dialog.
6. Open a terminal, and execute `grep nopasswdlogin /etc/group'. Note that
the current user is present.
7. Re-open the password dialog as in step 4.
8. Select "Set a password now", and set a password. Save the dialog.
9. Open a terminal, and execute `grep nopasswdlogin /etc/group'.
At step 9, if the bug is present then the user will still be in the
group. If it is fixed then the user will not.
[ Fix ]
unity-control-center's user-accounts panel contains a codepath to call
`passwd' directly when changing the current user's password. There's
another path when setting the password for a different user which uses
AccountsService. In the former codepath, the AccountsService call
required to remove the user from `nopasswdlogin' is not executed
(act_user_set_password_mode (..., ACT_USER_PASSWORD_MODE_REGULAR)).
The proposed fix (in the attached MP) is to always make this call when
setting a password, even in this passwd case.
[ QA ]
Run the test case above. Additionally,
- Try to use the dialog to change passwords without unlocking it.
- Try to change both the current and another user's password.
Make sure the nopasswdlogin membership is right at all times and the
new password always gets applied (e.g. try logging out and in to check
the settings).
[ Regression potential ]
The fix changes a couple of things
- We now call act_user_set_password_mode () after running passwd.
- We now call act_user_set_password () before act_user_set_password_mode
(), which is the opposite of the previous order.
AFAIK both of these changes are fine, but we should run the QA tests
above to get confidence that they didn't break password setting.
[ Original description ]
1. Go to path "System Setting --> User Accounts--> Unlock" to unlock system
setting.
2. Click "Password --> Action --> Log in without password -->Change to clear
Log in password. (as doing so, the user is added to group "nopasswdlogin")
3. Check that the user is in the nopasswdlogin group
4. Then do the similar action "Set a password now" as the same way to set Log
in password.
5. Check that the user is *not* in the nopasswdlogin group.
The key problem is: it won't remove user from nopasswdlogin in step 4.
At step 5, you are left in the group.
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