https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833634 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833634#c0 Summary: kdm: Disabling root login also disables passwordless login Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.3 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 12.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: KDE4 Workspace AssignedTo: kde-maintainers@suse.de ReportedBy: Yarny@public-files.de QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0 Accounts without password (i.e. where the password has been cleared with "passwd -d") may authenticate without being asked for a password if the nullok option is present in /etc/pam.d/common-auth. kdm, however, refuses to authenticate such accounts if
DISPLAYMANAGER_ROOT_LOGIN_LOCAL=no is set in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager.
echo "AllowNullPasswd=${ALLOW_ROOT_LOGIN}" in /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/read_sysconfig.sh which couples root login
Reproducible: Always The reason for this behaviour is most probably line 124 permission and passwordless login permission. Unless there is a (security related ?) reason for this coupling I'd suggest to remove this line so passwordless login's are controlled by pam alone as it is the case with lightdm and text logins. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.