[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#607073: login: securetty: Breaks graphical login of many passwordless users

[Nicolas François]

severity 607073 wishlist
summary 607073 0
thanks

/etc/securetty is a conffile distributed with a fixed set of ttys
considered secure in common situations. Tty used by X11 are listed until  
3(.1), but in case of multi-users, multi-screens, ... this can be too
limited, which can result in user denied to login with passwordless    
accounts. User should complete this list if they reach this limitation.
In the long term, /etc/securetty could support regular             
expressions, but the compatibility with pam_securetty or pam_unix
nullok_secure needs to be considered.

Patch welcome.

Best Regards,
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Nekral