Re: gdm2 beta 2 won't log me in if I double-click on a user

[Jacob Berkman <jberkman andrew cmu edu>]

Martin Kasper Petersen <mkp@socsci.auc.dk> writes:

> >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Hensley <dan.hensley@att.net> writes:
> 
> Dan> 2) I found a way for the password to appear in clear text.  Try this:
> Dan> * Double-click on a user name
> Dan> * Enter an incorrect password and hit <CR>
> Dan> * Double-click on a new user name
> Dan> * Notice that the login text looks funny: i.e. displays something
> Dan>   like Login: UPassword:
> Dan> * Type in the password.  It appears in clear text, not *'s.  Note
> Dan>   that if you enter the correct password it will log in as usual.
> 
> Dan> Note that this still occurs in beta4.  I'm on glibc-2.0.7, RH5.1.
> 
> Anybody else experiencing this?

I used to get that a while ago... I think it was due to gdmlogin printing
that it couldn't connect to esd.  You think something like that is
happening again?

Jacob
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