xdm shows a password prompt instead of a login prompt

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 05:34:12PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:59:23PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> >>Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> >>>Hi
> >>>
> >>>Since xdm switched to separate login/password window prompts you get a
> >>>password prompt after typing in a wrong password, although it should
> >>>be a login prompt. This is pretty confusing IMHO. I'm using xdm 1.1.3.
> >>Strange - when I type in a password that fails it resets back to prompting
> >>for username.   
> >
> >Just to make sure. It prompts for a password but treats the input
> >correctly as a username (letters are echoed), so actually *only* the
> >prompt is wrong.
> 
> I see the problem now - it was hidden when I tried on Solaris because of the
> hack in the PAM conversation to check and see if pam_get_item(.., 
> PAM_USER,...)
> returns that a username has already been set.   Once that's set, the
> conversation function sets the top line to "Login:   username" and puts the
> remaining prompts on the second line, so that for a typical 
> username/password
> authentication, it looks the same as it always has, except that the password
> prompt doesn't appear until after you enter your username.   I guess your 
> PAM
> stack doesn't set PAM_USER until later, so all the prompts appear on the top
> line.   If I disable that hack, I see the bug, and putting in an explicit 
> reset
> of the username prompt at the top of the PAM loop fixes it.
> 
> I've putback that fix to the xdm git repository (along with a couple of 
> others
> that had been piling up in bugzilla) - if you could try it and let me know 
> if
> it fixes your problem, I'll cut a xdm-1.1.4 release next week.

Yes, the new git version works for me. Thanks!

Best regards,
Stefan

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