From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 4 14:16:38 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAC911065672 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 14:16:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from craig001@lerwick.hopto.org) Received: from lerwick.hopto.org (81-178-20-70.dsl.pipex.com [81.178.20.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B7A268FC17 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 14:16:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from craig001@lerwick.hopto.org) Received: (qmail 99558 invoked by uid 98); 4 Nov 2008 14:15:20 +0000 Received: from 192.168.0.2 by polaris.lerwick.hopto.org (envelope-from , uid 82) with qmail-scanner-2.01 (clamdscan: 0.88.4/1789. hbedv: 7.1.1.11/6.35.1.178. f-prot: 4.6.6/3.16.14. spamassassin: 3.1.4. Clear:RC:1(192.168.0.2):. Processed in 0.046018 secs); 04 Nov 2008 14:15:20 -0000 Received: from main.lerwick.hopto.org (HELO ?192.168.0.2?) (192.168.0.2) by lerwick.hopto.org with SMTP; 4 Nov 2008 14:15:19 +0000 From: Craig Butler To: Roey Dror In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:16:32 +0000 Message-Id: <1225808192.3407.16.camel@main.lerwick.hopto.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM login without using a password X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:16:38 -0000 On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:02 +0200, Roey Dror wrote: > I've searched around the internet for a way to allow a user to login > into GDM without using a password. > I know that GDM has an automatic login feature, but that's not what I'm looking. > I really do not wish to create a user with an empty password, in order > not to compromise the entire system security. > I found a mini-HOWTO which suggests using the pam_filelist module. > Unfortunately, I couldn't find this module in the ports system. > > Is there any other way to allow this user to login without using a > password only using GDM? > AFAIK the automatic login feature allows you to nominate a user to automatically log in as... it doesn't ask for the password but I think one can be set (so it doesn't need to be empty). Automatic login is a security risk in its self, the cracker is already one step closer. It is all controlled through gdmsetup. Regards Craig B