Bug 13455

Summary:

xdm-1.1.4 and 1.1.6: xlogin*allowNullPasswd: true doesn't work until the second login attempt

Product:

xorg

Reporter:

Shawn Rutledge <shawn.t.rutledge>

Component:

App/xdm

Assignee:

Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>

Severity:

normal

Priority:

medium

Version:

7.2 (2007.02)

Hardware:

x86 (IA32)

OS:

Linux (All)

URL:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200709

Whiteboard:

i915 platform:

i915 features:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Assign allow_null_passwd and allow_root_login variables' values before call to pam_authenticate()	none

Description Shawn Rutledge 2007-11-30 00:36:24 UTC

I tried adding this line to /etc/X11/xdm/XResources:

xlogin*allowNullPasswd: true

in order to allow a user with no passwd to log in.  (First I verified that the
user can log in from the console, and yes, indeed it does not ask for a
password.)  Then I restarted xdm and tried to log in.  The first time after starting xdm, it asks for a password, I leave the field empty, and fail to log in.  The second time however, after having failed to log in, I simply type the same username again, and it does not prompt for a password, but immediately logs in, as it should have done the first time.  If I log out and get back to the xdm prompt, the whole sequence can be repeated (username, empty password, fail; username, login successful).

Comment 1 Alan Coopersmith 2009-09-17 17:39:24 UTC

allowNullPasswd handling is specific to each authentication backend.

If using PAM, allowNullPasswd is passed to PAM as the setting or unsetting of PAM_DISALLOW_NULL_AUTHTOK, and left to PAM to enforce.

Comment 2 Tim Shumakov 2011-06-02 16:11:29 UTC

Created attachment 47464 [details] [review]
Assign allow_null_passwd and allow_root_login variables' values before call to pam_authenticate()

Comment 3 Alan Coopersmith 2011-06-02 18:45:06 UTC

Thanks for figuring this out!   A modified form of this patch has been sent
on to xorg-devel for review:

http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/5720/

Comment 4 Alan Coopersmith 2011-06-07 22:33:30 UTC

Fix pushed to git master:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xdm/commit/?id=3c3f9cde9dda4c74178cc5428ebf8967c26a516a

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