Bug#683338: i'm also seeing gdm3 fail to allow a login on wheezy

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

re http://bugs.debian.org/683338 --

I also have a situation where the user list is too long to use normally,
so i need to set disable_user_list=true.  this followup assumes that
this setting is made in /etc/gdm/greeter.gsettings, all in the context
of a debian wheezy system.

While the patch supplied by Sébastien Villemot [0] does resolve the
situation when a user clicks "cancel" during a login, it also appears to
break the login dialog box when someone enters the wrong password (as
reported by Gregorio Corral [1]).  With the patch, if you fail to enter
the correct password, the dialog box remains with no UI elements.

Sébastien, can you confirm that behavior?  have you tried failing a
login with your patch applied?

Is this problem reported upstream anywhere?  This appears to make the
login manager basically unusable for anything but single-user machines.
Encouraging people to "zap" the X server to get it to restart, or
encouraging logging in from a text mode console to kill gdm somehow are
not really acceptable options.

Has this been reported upstream anywhere?

	--dkg

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/683338#40
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/683338#47

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