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Bug 123958 - gdm do not refresh the root login for gdm configuration
gdm do not refresh the root login for gdm configuration
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.4.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-10-06 14:55 UTC by Frederic Crozat
Modified: 2004-05-06 16:58 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Clear pam message when given empty string, don't append it... (493 bytes, patch)
2004-03-12 15:28 UTC, Frederic Crozat 		none Details | Review

Description Frederic Crozat 2003-10-06 14:55:35 UTC 
Follow up of Mdk bug http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5949

First set your root account WITHOUT password. 
Then in gdm, select action, then configure gdm. 
When you close the configuration screen; you will still see the root password 
request ...
Comment 1 George Lebl 2003-10-16 16:46:09 UTC 
empty root password?  evil.

In any case, fixing in HEAD
Comment 2 Frederic Crozat 2003-10-17 15:52:00 UTC 
Reopening, I'm still seeing it in 2.4.4.4, which is supposed to fix this..

But it might be caused by bug #119853
Comment 3 Frederic Crozat 2004-03-11 16:39:34 UTC 
The bug is only present when using gdmgreeter which continue to append
text to pam-message.. Investigation in process
Comment 4 Frederic Crozat 2004-03-12 15:28:35 UTC 
Created attachment 25562 [details] [review]
Clear pam message when given empty string, don't append it...
Comment 5 Frederic Crozat 2004-03-12 15:30:34 UTC 
The attached patch fixes the bug in greeter-item-pam.c by forcing
replacement of pam-message when new message is empty (instead of
appending it), since GDM_MSG with empty message is always used to
clear the message.

It might be useful to have the same login in gdmlogin.c (but it is not
needed to fix this bug..)
Comment 6 George Lebl 2004-05-06 16:58:17 UTC 
fixing in CVS, thanks