Bug#551802: gdm: still fails to manage remote utmp records correctly

[Josselin Mouette]

Le vendredi 15 octobre 2010 à 09:23 -0300, Maximiliano Curia a écrit :
> As reported in lenny's version, gdm tries to manage the utmp record setting the
> id of the record to be the first part of display name, the id is defined to be
> 4 bytes long, and the display name for xdmcp clients is of the form
> ip:display_number, so, xdmcp users in the same /8 network end up overwriting
> the other user utmp record.
> 
> On the other hand, if the id is a sequence of '\0', the id field is not used
> as a unique identifier, but the "line" field is. Since the line field is long
> enough to hold a ip:display_number, the attached patch uses this idea to avoid
> the collisions.

The gdm package is only here to handle upgrades from lenny. Could you
test again with gdm3?

Thanks,
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