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  1. Bug #104957
  2. Comment #40

Comment 40 for bug 104957

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Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10) wrote : Re: [Bug 104957] Re: users with no password can't log in with gdm

Thanks for agreeing with me on this case

On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 20:14 +0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Well in that case, I'm marking the gdm Ubuntu task as invalid. The
> Debian shadow maintainer has agreed that /etc/securetty should mark
> these X displays as trusted. This hasn't entirely been implemented yet
> since fusa jumps straight to :20 as its next display number and
> /etc/securetty only goes up to :3 currently, so this still needs to be
> implemented (either by supporting wildcards in pam or by listing out all
> the displays in /etc/securetty), but in either case no code can or
> should be changed in gdm for this.
>
> ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
> Status: Fix Committed => Invalid
>
> ** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
>