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Bug 349758 - gdm shouldn't clear error message when resetting after failed login
gdm shouldn't clear error message when resetting after failed login
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-08-03 07:01 UTC by Ray Strode [halfline]
Modified: 2006-08-03 17:25 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Attachments
don't immediately clear error message on login failure (370 bytes, patch)
2006-08-03 07:04 UTC, Ray Strode [halfline] 		none Details | Review

Description Ray Strode [halfline] 2006-08-03 07:01:33 UTC 
At one point I changed gdm to have a GDM_SOP_CANCEL_LOGIN_REQUESTS feature to reset pam.

When adding this feature, I made the GDM_RESET operation more fully reset the graphical greeter.  One such change was:

+       greeter_item_pam_error ("");

I think this was a mistake.  It means that when the slave resets the greeter after a failed attemp, the pam error messages explaining why the problem failed gets erased.
Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2006-08-03 07:04:29 UTC 
Created attachment 70114 [details] [review]
don't immediately clear error message on login failure
Comment 2 Brian Cameron 2006-08-03 16:48:52 UTC 
Ray, I'm confused here.  I don't see this change in GDM 2.14 or 2.15.  I know you recently sent me some patches for review for SmartCard support, but I thought you were working more on those?  The patch you provide doesn't seem to apply. 

Any ideas?
Comment 3 Ray Strode [halfline] 2006-08-03 17:08:44 UTC 
Hi Brian,

I do still need to do some smart card work, but this was to fix up a problem in the PAM reset patch, which I thought was already applied.

The PAM reset patch was a fairly independent prerequisite for the the smart card work.

The patch in attachment 70114 [details] [review] was against the rawhide tree, so I didn't notice that the pam-reset patch hasn't been applied yet.

What I'll do is fix up the pam-reset patch and resubmit it when I get a chance to finish up the smart card work

We can close this bug I guess.  Sorry for the confusion.
Comment 4 Brian Cameron 2006-08-03 17:25:12 UTC 
Okay, that makes more sense.  I look forward to reviewing your patch for SmartCard support - I think it will be a cool new feature.  I assume that you'll just include this fix in that patch when you provide it.

Thanks...