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krisse7

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Registered: 2012-04-27

Posts: 2

GDM passwordless login not working anymore

A long time ago I enabled user 'guest' to log in just by clicking on the user name in the GDM login screen, without the need to enter the password. I did everything according to the wiki and everything worked fine. However, now it is not working anymore and GDM asks for a password. I didn't change anything and have no clue what could have caused this except if upgrading packages changed something. Actually it stopped working several months ago (I don't remember when exactly) so it's not a recent upgrade that caused this. According to GDM manual this should still work.

Here is my /etc/pam.d/gdm:

#%PAM-1.0
auth            requisite       pam_nologin.so
auth            required        pam_env.so
auth            sufficient      pam_succeed_if.so user ingroup nopasswdlogin
auth            required        pam_unix.so
auth            optional        pam_gnome_keyring.so
account         required        pam_unix.so
session         required        pam_limits.so
session         required        pam_unix.so
session         optional        pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
password        required        pam_unix.so

User 'guest' is in the group nopasswdlogin.

I have currently GDM 3.4.1-2 and pam 1.1.5-2 installed, but as I said, the problem appeared already several months ago. I'm using Xfce (not Gnome) if that makes any difference.