Re: gdm login without password

From: Sven Arvidsson (sa_at_whiz.se)
Date: 04/29/05

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    Marius Ley wrote:
    > Is there any functionality in gdm that allows users with empty
    > passwords to log
    > in? I have only found out about the AutomaticLogic variable in
    > gdm.conf, which
    > is not what I want. I just want users with empty passwords to be able
    > to log in,
    > which gdm doesn't let me do in its default configuration (I'm using gdm
    > 2.6 on
    > debian sarge).
    >
    > Thanks for any suggestions.
    >
    >

    This post talks about using the pam_permit module to work around empty
    passwords. Might be what you want.
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/10/msg04098.html 

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