[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#859648: after login, shows blank page only

[Martin Pitt]

Control: tag -1 unreproducible
Control: severity -1 minor

Hello Daniel,

Daniel Baumann [2017-05-02  6:16 +0200]:
> figured it out.. it's because I've got root logins disabled through
> /etc/security/access.conf.
> It would be nice if cockpit would handle disabled logins better, i.e.
> not allow the login in the first place, rather than doing a login and
> then only showing a white page.

I'm afraid I can't reproduce the white page. I did

  echo '- : root : ALL' >> /etc/security/access.conf

Just that does not have any effect, as pam_access.so is not enabled anywhere in
/etc/pam.d/ by default. Console and Cockpit logins as root work normally.

When adding

  account  required       pam_access.so

to /etc/pam.d/cockpit or /etc/pam.d/common-account, then the Cockpit login says
"Permission denied": http://picpaste.de/pam_access.png

Where/how exactly did you add pam_access.so?

Bumping severity as this is not a suggestion for improvement, but (once
reproducible) a bona fide bug.

Thanks,

Martin