users in nopasswdlogin group are asked for a password and locked
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver
release: 10.10 (maverick)
version: 2.30.0-1ubuntu1
replication instructions :
* create a new user account and when requested for a password select the option to "not ask on login"
* login with that new account
* press ctrl+alt+l
problem description :
since there is no password for that account the password prompt makes no sense and can't be resolved keeping the account locked.
additional information :
gnome allows for the creation of accounts that are not required to enter a password to login by creating them with a locked password but as part of a special group named "nopasswdlogin" which then is authenticated to login by gdm through its pam
as shown by :
gdm auth sufficient pam_succeed_if.so user ingroup nopasswdlogin
adding the same line to /etc/pam.
| Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon (carenas) wrote | #1 |
this is somehow similar in use to #674563 but which is instead using "empty" passwords which had been deprecated by the "nopasswdlogin" functionality upstream as detailed in #393854.
note that the later bug mentions the need to add this also for gnome-screensaver but that was somehow forgotten probably because of the long discussion.