Ubuntu
gdm package

gdm requires *root* password for configuring within itself

Bug #14585 reported by Shish
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gdm (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Sebastien Bacher
Ubuntu ubuntu-6.06

Bug Description

Not quite sure what can be done about this, as it's pre-login... But when the
admin user chooses to be able to configure GDM from within itself (login config
-> security -> allow config from the login screen), and they then proceed to
try, they get asked for the *root* password, which of course doesn't exist.

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Till (till-varoquaux) wrote :

I guess the adequate way would be to ask a username and a password (for someone
in the admin group obviously).
And again this might prove hard so disabling this might be the way to go...

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Hezekiah Carty (hez) wrote :

This is still a problem with the latest Dapper packages. If you try to configure GDM from the login screen, it will prompt for a password (presumably root) which, by default, does not exist.

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

This menu option should simply be disabled for Dapper; it's only confusing and the functionality is available from the System menu for admin users

Changed in gdm:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

This upload fixes the issue:

 gdm (2.14.4-0ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream versions:
     - fix segfault when clicking on "Username" (Ubuntu: #31982)
     - fix "Show Actions Menu" section in gdmsetup so it appears when both
       "Plain" and "Themed" style is chosen (Ubuntu: #35835)
   * debian/control:
    - Build-Depends on libdmx-dev
    - Depends on librsvg2-common
   * debian/init:
    - use "--oknodo" option
   * debian/patches/02_default_config.patch:
     - updated, fix PreFetchProgram key (Ubuntu: #40984)
     debian/patches/09_desktop.patch:
     - updated, don't use startup notification, gksu already does that
       (Ubuntu: #40974)
   * debian/patches/02_default_config.patch:
     - don't list the configuration item by default (Ubuntu: #14585)
   * debian/patches/16_configure_menu_item.patch:
     - drop the configure option from gdmsetup it's not sudo friendly
   * debian/prerm:
     - don't break the uninstall if stopping gdm doesn't work (Ubuntu: #29390)

Changed in gdm:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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