Re: gdm2 beta 2 won't log me in if I double-click on a user

[Dan Hensley <dan hensley att net>]

Jacob Berkman wrote:

> Martin Kasper Petersen <mkp@socsci.auc.dk> writes:
>
> > >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Hensley <dan.hensley@att.net> writes:
> >
> > Dan> 2) I found a way for the password to appear in clear text.  Try this:
> > Dan> * Double-click on a user name
> > Dan> * Enter an incorrect password and hit <CR>
> > Dan> * Double-click on a new user name
> > Dan> * Notice that the login text looks funny: i.e. displays something
> > Dan>   like Login: UPassword:
> > Dan> * Type in the password.  It appears in clear text, not *'s.  Note
> > Dan>   that if you enter the correct password it will log in as usual.
> >
> > Dan> Note that this still occurs in beta4.  I'm on glibc-2.0.7, RH5.1.
> >
> > Anybody else experiencing this?
>
> I used to get that a while ago... I think it was due to gdmlogin printing
> that it couldn't connect to esd.  You think something like that is
> happening again?

It could be esd-related, but I'm not sure it is.  I got it on my system when
esd was working, and now that it's not, I still get it.  About the only thing I
can think of is that I made a change to the [daemon] section of gdm.conf.  I
removed the --disable-sound option from the Greeter entry to see what happened
(nothing different, i.e. I don't get any sound or anything), and I haven't
bothered putting it back in.  Maybe I'll give that a try.

Dan