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

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le mercredi 17 juillet 2013 à 10:27 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor a écrit :
> On 07/16/2013 07:45 PM, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> 
> > Yes, it has been reported upstream as indicated by the "forwarded
> > upstream" status of the present Debian bug report (it is 
> > #704284 in bugzilla.gnome.org).
> 
> Right, that was me forwarding it upstream :)

Oh, thanks.

> > However I am not sure that upstream is
> > going to invest time in fixing this, since they removed the fallback
> > greeter in recent GDM versions.
> 
> if you're talking about upstream's commit
> 8dbec8431d558b9d33adc987de2f7a58815589d4 by Ray Strode ("gui: drop
> fallback greeter"), which references an upstream bug [0], that itself
> was reverted in upstream commit 1732d1c22e88d6f05f5b5e234990ce68b0e59cc0 .

Ok, great. However it is unclear to me if upstream will keep this
greeter in the long run.

> Is this just a "fallback greeter" issue?  how does the shell-based
> greeter deal with disable-user-list=true ?

The shell-based greeter also has its own problems, different in both
cause and effets. Indeed disable-user-list=true does not work in
Wheezy's version, it is simply ignored (but it works in experimental). I
have tried to backport the relevant commits from 3.8 to 3.4, but it
turned out to be non trivial, so I gave up. This is tracked in Debian
BTS as #685105.

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