Autor: anonym Datum: To: The Tails public development discussion list Betreff: Re: [Tails-dev] Please review (and merge?)
feature/better_power_off_button
29/11/12 23:41, intrigeri wrote: > 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?
I think it's a good idea, and I in fact suggested this in the ticket.
I'll do this then (reverting the relevant stuff in the branch) and merge
into experimental so you all can have a look.
