You cannot put someone's password in cleartext into a configuration file.  That 
needs to be reverted right away.

On 04/04/2010 07:04 PM, Andrea Florio wrote:
> Hi people.. there is my situation...
> 
> using latest keyrig (2.30) and this lxdm git release:
> 
> http://lxde.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lxde/lxdm;a=commitdiff;h=ba2317dfbe0b91c5ee209daed794f6ebba7d5157
> 
> i can consider it as fixed (at least on suse, it "simply" works)
> 
> that is true if password is provided.
> 
> If autologin is enabled, that don't work but i don't consider that a
> problem, even because the same thing happen using gdm.
> 
> i appreciate effort to have it working even with autologin, but i really
> think that patch:
> 
> http://lxde.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lxde/lxdm;a=commitdiff;h=2895c16d2129ce7f93a73c52744f7b146cfc2e44
> 
> to be e BIG security hole. The problem IMHO is not to have the password
> into conf file, but the problem is that the password is NOT encrypted.
> 
> this patch should than removed (best choice) or allow to save the
> password into conf file into encrypted mode.
> 
> Best Regards
> Andrea
> 
> Il 03/04/2010 16:11, dgod ha scritto:
>> things have pushed to git, things should work when you login with passwd.
>>
>> if auto login , things is bad.
>>
>> this should the bug of gnome-keyring, they really need user to provide
>> passwd. should user to provide their passwd to work with this, I don't think
>> so.
>>
> 

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