Bug 861114 – greater window width when nologin message to long

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Bug 861114 - greater window width when nologin message to long

Summary:	greater window width when nologin message to long

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	gdm (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	6.4
Hardware:	Unspecified Unspecified

Priority	unspecified Severity unspecified
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact:	Desktop QE
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Blocks:	1566211
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Reported:	2012-09-27 10:28 EDT by Tomas Pelka
Modified:	2018-04-11 15:17 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	gdm-2.30.4-42.el6
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Cause: Long authentication messages stretch the login window to an unreasonable width. Consequence: The login window gets unreasonably wide if authentication messages are too long. Fix: Force authentication messages to wrap if they get too long. Result: Long authentication messages no longer stretch the login window to an unreasonable size.
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Clones:	1566211 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed:	2013-11-21 18:32:29 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2013:1708	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	gdm bug fix update	2013-11-20 19:39:27 EST

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Description Tomas Pelka 2012-09-27 10:28:59 EDT

Description of problem:
Gdm-greater window is going to follow text width of /etc/nologin. In case nologin message is really long greater window might go outside of visible screeen

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-2.30.4-33.el6

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. put very long text without "/n" to /etc/nologin
echo "veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong text" > /etc/nologin
2. try to relogin
3.
  
Actual results:
width of gdm greater can go ouf of visible screeen

Expected results:
text should be auto wrapped if possible

Additional info:

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2013-06-05 10:34:20 EDT

devack+

Comment 6 Ray Strode [halfline] 2013-08-12 17:26:21 EDT

should be set in gdm-2.30.4-42.el6

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-21 18:32:29 EST

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-1708.html

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