PAM: GDM-only login

[Dotan Cohen]

> 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)
>

Just use the password "games" along with the username "games". There
are quite a few gotchas that I've run into when not having a password,
like a previous poster said not being able to disable the screensaver
is one of them. The system assumes that there is a password and too
much stuff breaks when that assumption is not fulfilled.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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