Authentication with thinkfinger stalls login when user homes are encrypted
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
eCryptfs |
Won't Fix
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
ecryptfs-utils (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
pam (Ubuntu) |
Expired
|
Wishlist
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
When authenticating to the system with thinkfinger, the user encrypted home directories are not automatically mounted. Even though this makes total sense, since you will need to supply the password to unlock the encryption key. Having said this, the user should be prompted for the password in case if he/she is authenticated using thinkfinger or similar method. What happens now is when login to gdm using finger swipe, gdm starts loading and nothing happens. No message/warning is displayed. The user just sits there starring at a black screen :-)
My system is Jaunty Beta on Thinkpad T61p:
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04
apt-cache policy ecryptfs-utils
ecryptfs-utils:
Installed: 73-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 73-0ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 73-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
uname -a
Linux finka 2.6.28-11-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 27 10:01:17 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Changed in ecryptfs: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in ecryptfs: | |
status: | Incomplete → Won't Fix |
Changed in ecryptfs-utils (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Won't Fix |
Changed in pam (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Okay, I had previously marked this bug a duplicate of another request for fingerprint reader support.
Rather, this is more of 'bug' than a feature request.
Users with encrypted-home should not be broken by their fingerprint reader.
I've marked this as affecting PAM, as I think the fix might be somewhere in the PAM stack, though I'm not sure where.
:-Dustin