Re: Fedora 16 graphical login does not require a password
On 25/06/12 21:06, John Cockerham wrote:
Hello,
I am not sure which list to post this question, but it sure seemed to be
a security issue to me. I have a laptop with Fedora 16-x86_64bit
installed. One day last week I noticed that I was not required to enter
a password to log in from the graphical screen. This is true with all
users and when using both Gnome and KDE desktops. I have searched
everywhere I can think of and can't seem to find a artical describing
this issue. I have verified that auto-login has not been configured in
either Gnome or KDE. Strangely enough, if the screen saver kicks in I
have to enter a password to unlock it and if I switch to a textual
session (Alt-F2 for example) I have to enter both username and password
to login.
Does anyone have an idea how to re-enable the need to provide a password
or where I should begin to look for the problem?
tks
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John,
as we released Fedora 16 over 6 months ago, I will for now assume that
this is not a security issue, but a misconfiguration. Could you please
either email the Fedora support list, or join irc on freenode's #fedora
channel ? Should you then discover that this indeed is a security issue,
be it either the way we configured it, or a coding issue, please file a
security bug on bugzilla.redhat.com.
At this stage I find this unlikely though, but never say never. ;-)
Please be patient with some #fedora helpers, they can be quite abrasive.
Regards,
Tristan
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