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Subject: gnome-screensaver: unusable with empty password
From: Alexander Vlasov <zulu@gala.net>
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Package: gnome-screensaver
Version: 2.14.3-3
Severity: important

Gnome-screensaver has very nasty bug: it doesn't allow user with empty
password to unlock locked screen, regardless of nullok
in /etc/pam.d/common-auth.

So after a fresh install passwordless user can go away from the computer
for, say, 30 minutes; screensaver automatically runs and voila -- user
can't return to his desktop.

Just pressing Enter in unlock dialog always results in "incorrect
password".

-- 
Alexander Vlasov
ZULU-UANIC
JID: zulu <at> jabber.kiev.ua


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