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This patch fixes GDM's auto-login feature.
See the discussions in #35674 and #40411. It works for me, but I don't want to just commit it because I don't really understand PAM. (Then again, who does?)
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Alex Griffin
From 2d07fab70a4051189e013a20a95cfbb08c904803 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Griffin <a@ajgrf.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 17:58:47 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] services: Fix gdm-autologin pam service.
* gnu/services/xorg.scm (gdm-pam-service): Mark pam_gdm.so optional.
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gnu/services/xorg.scm | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/gnu/services/xorg.scm b/gnu/services/xorg.scm
index ca39994516..4590709187 100644
--- a/gnu/services/xorg.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/xorg.scm
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2019 Tim Gesthuizen <tim.gesthuizen@yahoo.de>
;;; Copyright © 2020 shtwzrd <shtwzrd@protonmail.com>
;;; Copyright © 2020 Jakub K?dzio?ka <kuba@kadziolka.net>
+;;; Copyright © 2020 Alex Griffin <a@ajgrf.com>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -925,7 +926,7 @@ the GNOME desktop environment.")
(inherit (unix-pam-service "gdm-autologin"
#:login-uid? #t))
(auth (list (pam-entry
- (control "[success=ok default=1]")
+ (control "optional")
(module (file-append (gdm-configuration-gdm config)
"/lib/security/pam_gdm.so")))
(pam-entry
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