mdm login prompt problems
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Linux Mint |
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Bug Description
I upgraded from Mint 15 to Mint 16 (not a reinstall). I am using the 64 bit Cinnamon version.
For security reasons, I hide all of my log-in names by adding an exclude statement in mdm.conf.
Problem#1. On upgrade from 15 to 16, I did not get any login greeter at all. In other words, there was no prompt for either a log-in name or a password. All I could do was to shutdown.
I eventually corrected the problem by removing the exclude statement from mdm.conf using recovery mode. This meant I could now log-in. I subsequently added the exclude statement back in and I still have a greeter. This leads to ...
Problem#2. There is no list of usernames (as I intend). However, the prompt is for password (of the first user in the hidden list). This should be a prompt for the login name (as on Mint 15). In the case of a hidden user list, is the user really expected to know which is the first user in the (hidden) list? I can get to the log-in prompt by incorrectly inserting the password. This is surely not how this should operate?
I am using the default html greeter. I have tried the GTK and GDM greeters which all show the same effect for promlem 2. Note that my mdm.conf was originally the one from int 15 which worked without either of the above problems.
The Exclude line in mdm.conf reads ..
Exclude=nobody, user1,user2 etc
This problem is fully repeatable.
