** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #609417 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609417
** Also affects: gdm (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609417 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- 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/393854 Title: Update PAM policy to allow password-less logins set up via users-admin Status in GDM: The Gnome Display Manager: Fix Released Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “gdm” package in Debian: Unknown Bug description: Binary package hint: gdm Upstream gnome-system-tools will have in 2.28 an option to allow specified users to log in graphically and locally without entering their password. This is intended for home users that can't use GDM's autologin because they are several on the same computer. A rationale is at: http://markmail.org/message/2h5isyf3kip6updb#query:gdm%20passwordless+page:1+mid:pa6lrzmwdtbol5it+state:results and the bug upstream was http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414862 For this to work in Ubuntu, we need to add a rule to the PAM configuration file: auth sufficient pam_succeed_if.so user ingroup nopasswdlogin And to create the group 'nopasswdlogin' in the postinstall script. Attached is a debdiff that does that. I guess somebody familiar with Ubuntu's PAM rules should check it since that's a critical part of the system's security, but that way of achieving this has been accepted by Brian Cameron (GDM) and Carlos Garnacho (gnome-system-tools) as safe, and many users has been using this as a hack for some time. This change should also affect gnome-screensaver so that the screen is not locked after suspend. I'll post a diff for that too, and for the gdm-new package. Please ask if you need more explanations about how this works. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gdm/+bug/393854/+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
