Bug#721388: gdm3: anyone can change the user's next session

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.net
Mon Sep 9 17:22:29 UTC 2013


On 2013-09-09 17:26:30 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> So if I understood correctly:
> 
> 1) A "rogue" user has selected your user in the list and then changed
>    your session to something else.
> 2) When you arrived in front of the screen you saw that your user was
>    already selected and then you just typed your password
> 3) You were logged in using the wrong session.
> 
> Is that correct?

I think that I cancelled first by typing Enter (i.e. an incorrect
password).

But, FYI, my user is selected by default as this is the only user
of the machine.

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