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gdmsetup "autologin" setting disagrees with user-admin "Password: Asked on login" setting

Bug #706587 reported by Stuart Langridge
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gdm (Ubuntu)
Expired
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gdm

In gdmsetup, I can set myself to autologin with a particular account. However, if I run users-admin, that account says "Password: asked on login", even though it's *not* asked on login (because I've got autologin turned on). This is mightily confusing to people who do not understand how the underlying bits all fit together, i.e., everybody :)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gdm 2.32.0-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic-pae 2.6.37
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jan 23 14:09:56 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gdm

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Stuart Langridge (sil) wrote :
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Stefan Dangl (stangls) wrote :

The main problem seems to me, that the no-password-login is provided by giving the user some special group.
Why not configure such a thing in /etc/gdm/custom.conf and move the checkbox to gdmsetup? I think, most users will look there for enabling such a feature.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the stable release - Oneiric Ocelot. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for gdm (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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