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

["Matt Greenfield" <matthewg clear net nz>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Hensley <dan.hensley@att.net>
To: Martin Kasper Petersen <mkp@socsci.auc.dk>
Cc: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: gdm2 beta 2 won't log me in if I double-click on a user


> Jacob Berkman wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> It could be esd-related, but I'm not sure it is.  I got it on my system
when
> esd was working, and now that it's not, I still get it.  About the only
thing I
> can think of is that I made a change to the [daemon] section of gdm.conf.
I
> removed the --disable-sound option from the Greeter entry to see what
happened
> (nothing different, i.e. I don't get any sound or anything), and I haven't
> bothered putting it back in.  Maybe I'll give that a try.
>
> Dan

I've been able to reproduce this one, or at least similar (after a failed
attempt at password, delete the failed attempt and type in again, and it
appears as normal text instead of *s) with --disable-sound in there.. I
doubt it's to do with esd.. This is from the beta3 deb that's in amongst
potato..

Matt