LDM uses `ssh user@server` to authenticate users. It then copies the user /etc/passwd information from the server to the client, but it doesn't copy the /etc/shadow part, i.e. the user password hash.
So fat client and localapps users do not have a password set, and thus cannot use `sudo`, cannot unlock a screensaver etc. The fix would be to let LDM/ssh.c write the hash of the password it gets from the user, locally to /etc/passwd. Patches welcome for that. In the future, for LTSP 6, the plan is to drop LDM completely and use pam to authenticate users, so there won't be issues like that there. But without contributors, LTSP 6 might take a long while to arrive... :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1316320 Title: Screen Lock does not prompt for password To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ltsp/+bug/1316320/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
