Bug#692821: gnome-shell: defines wrong pam service for gdm greeter

Dmitry Shachnev mitya57 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 09:24:13 UTC 2013


On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:
> You might want to search for other instances of this string. I find it
> flabbergasting that the PAM service is used in the UI rather than only
> in the slave, but upstream works in mysterious ways…

I've done this myself, and also found occurance of that string in
begin_other_verification() function of the gdm's simple greeter (aka
gdm-fallback), file
gui/simple-greeter/gdm-greeter-login-window.c (yes, UI code again).

I can provide patches for both gnome-shell and gdm3, if needed.

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Dmitry Shachnev



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