Bug#731882: gdm3: requires root password for reboot
Steven Post
redalert.commander at gmail.com
Wed Dec 11 20:27:43 UTC 2013
On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 22:13 +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> Le Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:13:30 +0100,
> Steven Post <redalert.commander at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> > Dear Maintainer,
>
> Hi,
>
> >
> > As suggested by Andreas Cadhalpun in #731686, I open a new bug for
> > this. When trying to reboot from the login screen, the root password
> > is asked. After giving the correct password, the system reboots
> > normally (only if systemd is used as pid 1).
> >
> > This seems to be a regression from 3.4 (now 3.8).
>
> Could you please try something, in /etc/pam.d/ delete the
> gdm-launch-environment symlink and then create a file with the same
> name with the following content:
>
> #%PAM-1.0
> auth requisite pam_nologin.so
> auth required pam_permit.so
> @include common-account
> session required pam_limits.so
> session required pam_env.so readenv=1
> session required pam_env.so readenv=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale
> @include common-session
> @include common-password
>
>
> Then try to reboot the machine and then try if it's still happening
Thanks for the reply, I tried your suggestion.
It still happens after changing that file in /etc/pam.d and then
rebooting, no change whatsoever in behaviour that I can tell. I did
notice that the password prompt is only displayed when previously logged
in (Gnome session).
No password prompt:
1) (re)boot starts gdm3
2) restart from login screen
Password prompt is shown:
1) (re)boot starts gdm3
2) log into Gnome
3) logout
4) restart from login screen
Perhaps the session doesn't close completely? I remember from (pre-)3.4
that a logged in user shutting down the machine also got the password
prompt when another session (such as a root terminal session) was still
open. If so, maybe this bug needs to re-assigned to a more appropriate
package, but I don't know which.
Best regards,
Steven
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