Hello there,
I've modified the file /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources adding the line
xlogin*allowNullPasswd: true
to enable graphical login fom a user without password but it didn't
work. Checking in /ar/log/auth.log I noticed the following lines:
Jan 15 18:56:34 DeeJay : (pam_securetty) access denied: tty ':0' is not secure !
Jan 15 18:56:34 DeeJay : (pam_securetty) access denied: tty ':0' is not secure !
Jan 15 18:56:34 DeeJay : (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname=root uid=0 euid=0 tty=:0 ruser= rhost= user=XXX
where XXX is the username of the user without password. Now I'm
wondering why the "logname" is root and why I have to add a line
containing ":0" in /etc/securetty . Is this the expected behaviour? Why
is it using logname "root"?
Thinking of a bug I tried downgrading from 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 (which is
the one that have the problem) to 4.1.0-16woody5 and it worked even
without :0 in /etc/securetty. Which one is wrong? Or maybe it's just a
new feature?
Thank you.
Ciao,
Daniele JID: dan@jabber.linux.it (http://www.jabber.org)
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