Does password-less login work?

[InNewtonITrust]

Hello all.
I cannot get the ‘password-less login’ feature to work. The opition is available under yast user managemet (expert settings), and also as a key under ‘displaymanager’ in the etc/sysconfig editor. I expect that with password less login enabled, i need not type my password when waking from sleep, for example. But i am always prompted for a password.
This is different from auto-login, of course. That works fine.
I’ve seen some old posts on this topic, but none seemed to provide a full explanation of what this option actually does. Some suggested conflicts with kdm, some mentioned a yast bug. Does password less login actually work?

Im on 13.2, Gnome desktop (so the login manager is gdm).

[I_A]

@InNewtonITrust

Hello all.
I cannot get the ‘password-less login’ feature to work. The opition is available under yast user managemet (expert settings), and also as a key under ‘displaymanager’ in the etc/sysconfig editor. I expect that with password less login enabled, i need not type my password when waking from sleep, for example. But i am always prompted for a password.
This is different from auto-login, of course. That works fine.
I’ve seen some old posts on this topic, but none seemed to provide a full explanation of what this option actually does. Some suggested conflicts with kdm, some mentioned a yast bug. Does password less login actually work?

Im on 13.2, Gnome desktop (so the login manager is gdm).

I know how to do it in kde, I don’t use gnome, you can try gdmsetup

gnomesu /usr/sbin/gdmsetup

find and set user password options.

edit. It seams gdmsetup has been dropped by the Gnome people, I’ve read about gdm2setup but I can’t seam to find a package try here
https://launchpad.net/gdm2setup

[nrickert]

@InNewtonITrust

I expect that with password less login enabled, i need not type my password when waking from sleep, for example. But i am always prompted for a password.

Hmm, no. I think you have the wrong setting.

You need to turn off locking in the screensaver settings. That’s independent of login without password.

If you login to Gnome without password, then your Gnome keyring probably won’t be unlocked. So I’m not sure if there is any real benefit to that.

[InNewtonITrust]

Ill try installing gdm2setup using the binaries, thanks.

@nrickert

If you login to Gnome without password, then your Gnome keyring probably won’t be unlocked. So I’m not sure if there is any real benefit to that.

I see what you mean. But this is only valid for initial autologin at boot time. Once the keyring is unlocked, and then i suspend the machine, the keyring doesnt lock again.
But Turning off screen lock will bypass the login manager completely, yes? That might be a simpler solution, you’re right…

[nrickert]

I usually avoid Gnome.

However, in Gnome:

Right click on background. Select “Settings”

Click “Privacy”.

Look for “Screen Lock” and change it to “Off”.

[InNewtonITrust]

@nrickert

I usually avoid Gnome.

Ive started exploring it since the most recent Gnome shell versions. Can you list any obvious advantges for KDE?

[nrickert]

@InNewtonITrust

Can you list any obvious advantges for KDE?

It is very configurable. If I want to change something, I go to “Configure Desktop” and I can usually find out how to do what I want.

At one time, I would have said that about Gnome. But these days, if I want to configure something in Gnome, I do a Google search to find out all of the weird tricks I will have to do to setup my desktop the way that I like.

[martinkoller]

@InNewtonITrust

Hello all.
I cannot get the ‘password-less login’ feature to work.
<snip>
Does password less login actually work?

Im on 13.2, Gnome desktop (so the login manager is gdm).

I got it working: the problem is the PAM configuration

You need to add the option “nullok” in the file /etc/pam.d/common-auth-pc in the line with pam_unix
E.g.:
auth required pam_unix.so try_first_pass nullok