Bug#673102: gdm3 greeter shows ALL users with non-/bin/false shells

[Michael Biebl]

reassign 673102 accountsservice
forcemerge 673095 673102
affects 673095 gdm3
thanks

On 16.05.2012 04:32, sacrificial-spam-address at horizon.com wrote:
> Package: gdm3
> Version: 3.0.4-4
> Severity:important
> Architecture: i386
> 
> I'm tracking debian/unstable, and my computer was down for a week or so
> with a bad power supply.  After bringing it up to date, I found a stupid
> number of users listed in the gdm3 greeter.
> 
> Users like "backup", "Majordomo" (ud 31), gnats (uid 41), etc.
> 
> This is, if I understand correctly, Not Supposed To Happen.
> 
> Changing shells to /bin/false makes users disappear from the list,
> but /bin/symlink-to-bash does not.
> 
> System is 64-bit kernel, i386 userland, 16 GB RAM, i7-2700K processor,
> 3.3.0-rc5 kernel (upgrading soon), onboard (Intel HD 3000) graphics.
> 
> The bug might not be in the gdm3 binary proper, but rather one of the
> support libraries, but I'm not up to figuring out what is going on.
> gdm3 is ultimately responsible.
> 
> 
> Attempts to specify only listed users in /etc/gdm3/daemon.comf,
> section [greeter], using IncludeAll=false and Include="user,user2"
> did not work.  Nor did Exclude="majordomo".
> 
> Neither did equivalent edits to /usr/share/gdm/gdm.schemas.
> 


http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673095

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