The pam_unix module in Ubuntu supports granting access to passwordless accounts by way of the 'nullok_secure' option, which says: accounts with a null password field are allowed access, as long as the connection is on a "secure" tty (defined by /etc/securetty). This is already in effect by default for all services, including gdm; I don't think it's appropriate to have two separate mechanisms for configuring passwordless logins on the system. Adding a special group to the system is, in particular, a design that's rather unnecessarily complex.
(The nullok_secure support in pam_unix is still in need of upstreaming to Linux-PAM, so it's understandable that gdm upstream isn't using that instead; still, I don't think we want this patch.) -- Update PAM policy to allow password-less logins set up via users-admin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/393854 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
