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Bug 172912 - FUSA should provide the login name to GDM
FUSA should provide the login name to GDM
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 402475
Product: fast-user-switch-applet
Classification: Deprecated
Component: Applet
2.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Fast User Switch Applet Maintainer
Fast User Switch Applet Maintainer
: 326219 331082 338680 342100 355702 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 335786 368704
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-04-07 07:19 UTC by Baptiste Mille-Mathias
Modified: 2007-09-17 04:13 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Baptiste Mille-Mathias 2005-04-07 07:19:47 UTC 
Distribution/Version: Ubuntu

Hello,

I know FUSA is a young project, 

1/ Select in the FUSA applet an unlogged user
2/ GDM appears
3/ GDM ask for the login name of the user

FUSA should provide the login name to GDM, also the new user should only have to
enter it's password.

FUSA 0.2
Ubuntu Hoary compiled with the instruction provided in the tarball.

Cheers
Comment 1 Baptiste Mille-Mathias 2005-04-07 07:27:32 UTC 
I forgot some word earlier, :)
it was "I know FUSA is a young project, but it will be totally rocking quickly"
Comment 2 James Cape 2005-04-07 07:37:36 UTC 
Well, unfortunately GDM doesn't currently allow one to provide the desired user.
I'm trying to hash out a common (better) way for FUSA, the screensaver, and the
logout dialog to contact *DM, which hopefully will allow us to have the features
of both OS X (menu) and Windows XP (screensaver) when it comes to fast
user-switching.
Comment 3 James Cape 2005-04-07 07:46:31 UTC 
I should also note that I'm going to leave this bug open until it's fixed, since
it still is a bug. :-)
Comment 4 William Jon McCann 2006-01-09 16:43:32 UTC 
*** Bug 326219 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Teppo Turtiainen 2006-02-15 15:53:45 UTC 
*** Bug 331082 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 James Cape 2006-04-16 19:49:45 UTC 
The essential problem here is how to implement this in GDM without breaking PAM.
Comment 7 James Cape 2006-04-16 19:50:26 UTC 
*** Bug 338680 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 William Jon McCann 2006-09-08 13:55:47 UTC 
*** Bug 342100 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 William Jon McCann 2006-09-13 18:38:01 UTC 
*** Bug 355702 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Thomas Thurman 2006-11-11 15:56:04 UTC 
I think this will only really be solved when we're using dbus, so marking as dependent on bug 368704.
Comment 11 Pavel Šefránek 2007-07-22 11:02:38 UTC 
Fedora 7 with ConsoleKit handles this very well. Feel free to close this issue.
Comment 12 Matthias Clasen 2007-09-17 03:22:33 UTC 
This is another dupe of bug 402475, imo
Comment 13 Thomas Thurman 2007-09-17 04:13:54 UTC 
I think you're right.

What does Fedora 7 do? Something that isn't provided for in the patch on bug 402475?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 402475 ***