Author: intrigeri Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Please review (and merge?)
feature/better_power_off_button
anonym wrote (20 Nov 2012 18:54:48 GMT) : > Per ague's suggestion (over IRC) about this being PAM-realated I looked
> into it a bit more. The current configuration has "nullok_secure" for
> "traditional password authentication", which means that empty passwords
> are ok when used on secure tty's. Removing it prevents gdm from skipping
> Tails Greeter and go directly to GNOME, but then X aborts with PAM
> errors when I click "Login" in Tails Greeter. I'm no PAM expert, but
> this seems like a lost cause to me.
How about preparing a lightweight initial version of this branch,
*without* the lock feature, making sure it's complete and in good
shape to be merged in time for 0.16, and *then* come back to the
screensaver / lock / PAM and DPMS thing, that is harder than expected?
