Bug#478263: xdm: does not allow to log in when no password is set

[Michal Suchanek <michal.suchanek@ruk.cuni.cz>]

Excerpts from Cyril Brulebois's message of Sun Mar 06 08:16:47 +0100 2011:
> Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (06/03/2011):
> > if you'd like this bug to be looked at, you probably want to report
> > it upstream (product xorg, component App/xdm):
> >   http://bugs.freedesktop.org/
> 
> Actually, man xdm says:
> 
>        xlogin.Login.allowNullPasswd
>               If set to ``true'', allow an otherwise failing password match to
>               succeed  if the account does not require a password at all.  The
>               default is ``false'', so only users that have passwords assigned
>               can log in.
> 
This is a discrepancy between login(1) and xdm then. login(1) allows
users with no password to log on without any issues or special settings.

Thanks

Michal