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

["Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>]

Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 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.

OTOH, openssh-server has an analogous setting.  Personally I have no
problem with this (assuming it works; I haven't tested it yet).