PAM: GDM-only login

[ik]

In Gnome you can tell it to allow users not to place passwords, but I
also found the following thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=123116

I hope it helps you.

Ido


On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I occasionally need to setup a throw-away "games" user for someone to
> play a bit with my laptop. Having a password is an annoyance in this
> case.
>
> So I thought I'll use PAM to disregard the password and accept the
> authentication anyway:
>
> http://tzafrir.org.il/~tzafrir/add_gdmonly_user
>
> This uses pam_listfile.so for that purpose. One remaining issue is that
> GDM will prompt me for the password anyway (in the past it didn't if it
> wasn't needed)
>
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