Hi all! More than two months ago, I reported bug 393854 about supporting in Karmic a new feature that we recently added to the gnome-system-tools and gdm. It allows users to be granted (by admins) the right to log in through GDM without typing their password. This works by making them members of a given Unix group, and checking this via PAM. See the bug report and the links there for a complete explanation and rationale behind that (in particular, don't confuse this feature with what we currently get using 'passwd -d').
What Ubuntu needs for this checkbox to be available and effective is to create that group, and update the GDM PAM policy file to allow this. The upstream config file already includes such a (minor) change. I've provided debdiffs that would apply those two changes to the current GDM in Karmic. I'd really hope somebody can tackle (i.e. review) that before the freeze. The security audit required to publish those modifications should not be complex at all. It would be too bad to get a greyed out checkbox in users-admin because of lack of attention, while many users rely on hacks to create unsecure and unpractical accounts without any password. Thanks! Cheers 1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/393854 -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
