Bug#580629: gdm3 - allows unauthenticated users to change power configuration

[Bastian Blank]

On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 09:18:48PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 07 mai 2010 à 12:08 +0200, Bastian Blank a écrit : 
> > gdm3 allows unauthenticated users to change the power configuration,
> > including automatic suspend.
> > This is a DoS on any non-singleuser machine.
> What do you mean by “unauthenticated users”? Do you mean it is possible
> to change that configuration from the login screen?

Yes. The login screen allow access to gnome-power-manager properties.
See /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/gnome-power-manager.desktop.

Bastian

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