Bug 53016

Summary:	Password expiry notification problem.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Chris Kloiber <ckloiber>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Description Chris Kloiber 2001-09-01 20:42:49 UTC

Description of Problem:

I set my password to expire in less than a week, it was set to warn me with
7 days to go. Unfortuantely when logging in using gdm, the warning message
 is present on the screen for only a fraction of a second before the entire
login box is removed from the screen. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

gdm-2.2.3.1-18

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2001-09-02 00:51:28 UTC

Hmm, this will be tricky to fix without causing a delay for the normal case.

PAM is a bit too free-form for a GUI login screen...

Comment 2 Chris Kloiber 2001-09-02 16:33:57 UTC

I tried this with kdm and it works by opening a new window and requiring the
user to click an 'OK' button. Is that doable? 

I also tried xdm for completness sake, but either it's really badly broken or I
didn't set it up right. I couldn't log in at all with xdm if the password was
about to expire. If I can confirm that I'll open another bug# for xdm.

Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2001-09-02 17:20:44 UTC

I'll have to look at what kdm does. I'm not sure kdm uses PAM however, or if it
does it may use it in a way that keeps some PAM modules from working.

It's certainly a bug if xdm won't let you log in, I would say.

Comment 4 George Lebl 2001-11-22 02:18:43 UTC

This is fixed in the newest gdm release 2.2.5.1

Comment 5 Havoc Pennington 2002-02-11 23:58:10 UTC

Newer gdm now in rawhide