Bug 672135

Summary:	users with no "real name" in /etc/passwd show up as blank
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	jmccann
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	rawhide	CC:	awilliam, cschalle, hoyang, jlaska, jmccann, jsmith.fedora, ktdreyer, mads, mschmidt, rstrode
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Hardware:	Unspecified
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Whiteboard:	AcceptedNTH
Fixed In Version:	gdm-2.91.94-1.fc15	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2011-04-02 20:11:29 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	657619, 657621

Description Paolo Bonzini 2011-01-24 04:55:19 UTC

Description of problem:
If a user didn't fill in his real name in /etc/passwd, their entry in gdm shows up as blank.  gdm should default to the login name.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.91.4-5

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new user with useradd
2. Start graphical login.
3.
  
Actual results:
The new user's entry is blank.

Expected results:
The new user's entry shows the login name as it did in F14 and earlier.

Comment 1 James Laska 2011-03-01 15:34:54 UTC

I'm seeing the same thing, but I suspect it might be related to using SSSD (krb and ldap) for using auth and identification.

gdm-2.91.91-1.fc15.x86_64
sssd-1.5.1-8.fc15.x86_64

Comment 2 Michal Schmidt 2011-03-01 16:08:05 UTC

No. This is perfectly reproducible without SSSD. Simply have an empty GECOS field in /etc/passwd.

Comment 3 James Laska 2011-03-03 15:34:14 UTC

*** Bug 673921 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 James Laska 2011-03-03 15:36:42 UTC

Proposing this as a final release blocker (and Beta NTH).  We don't have any release criteria that cover this use case, but this seems like a somewhat public/high_profile area which we would want to address.

Comment 5 Jared Smith 2011-03-07 20:51:59 UTC

I agree with making this a release blocker and Beta nice-to-have.

Comment 6 Adam Williamson 2011-03-11 19:14:00 UTC

Discussed at 2011-03-11 blocker review meeting. We decided we can't really make a convincing case for this being a final blocker; if someone wants to re-propose it and make such a case, please do. For now, accepted as NTH for Beta and Final.

Comment 7 Ken Dreyer 2011-03-12 14:58:14 UTC

appears to be fixed upstream

Comment 8 Michal Schmidt 2011-04-02 20:11:29 UTC

The upstream fix reached Fedora. gdm shows login names as expected.