Re: [gdm-list] Allowing password-less connexions

[Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr>]

I've just read the answer Martin got last time he raised this issue.
Obviously distro-specific PAM will be a problem - but what would be nice
is that a distribution wanting to enable this feature can do this
easily. For this we would need mostly a GUI, since PAM files are anyway
written by the distros.

After thinking a little more, I though that maybe it would be more
logical and easier to add a checkbox in the users profiles in
users-admin (from gnome-system-tools) allowing to skip password check in
GDM/gnome-screensaver. This option would just write the username to a
file (/etc/gdm-nopasswd.list, /etc/nopasswd.list or so...).
Distributions would have to choose between updating pam.d conf files
accordingly so that this is working, or disabling/hiding this feature
(via a GConf key for example).

Adding this in GDM would require more work and an extended interface,
and moreover the per-user approach may be more friendly than configuring
the login screen (system-wide).

Any comments/criticisms? I'm contacting the g-s-t team to hear what they
think of it, and I CC the gdm-list.