Switching to user without password still shows greeter

Bug #861177 reported by Robert Ancell
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Light Display Manager
Fix Released
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lightdm (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

Switching to a user without a password still shows the greeter. It should switch straight to that user.

This was supposed to be working, but must have regressed at some point. There is no test for it currently.

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CVE References

Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
Changed in lightdm:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in lightdm:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in lightdm:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package lightdm - 1.1.1-0ubuntu1

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lightdm (1.1.1-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    * Support PAM requesting a change of password (lp: #911597)
    * Support for reading users' backgrounds from Accounts Service
      (lp: #844081)
    * Switching to a user without a password bypasses the greeter
      (lp: #861177)
    * Move the GTK+ and Qt greeters into their own projects
  * Drop the gtk and qt greeters packaging files from this source
  * debian/liblightdm-gobject-1-0.symbols:
    - list new lightdm_user_get_background symbol
  * debian/patches/04_CVE-2011-4105.patch,
    debian/patches/05_CVE-2011-3153.patch,
    debian/patches/09_show_lang_chooser_option.patch,
    debian/patches/10_available_languages.patch,
    debian/patches/11_set_language_in_accountsservice.patch:
    - dropped, those issues are fixed in the new version or apply to the
      gtk greeter which is moved to its own source
  * debian/rules:
    - install lightdm-set-defaults back to its previous location
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:10:03 +0100

Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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