Bug 21914

Summary:	Unable to log in using LightDM when /run/nologin present
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Stig-Ørjan Smelror <smelror>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	jani.valimaa
Version:	6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	ls --full-time /run/nologin Journal after boot with nologin present

Description Stig-Ørjan Smelror 2017-10-22 12:59:06 CEST

Hi.

Experienced this just now and LightDM showed a message about incorrect password.

I saw the error when I Ctrl-Alt-F2 and tried to log in on the console and saw the message about "Machine booting".

Had to log in as root and delete /run/nologin before I was able to proceed.
I forgot to run tests on the file before I removed it. Sorry about that.

Cheers,
Stig

Comment 1 Jani Välimaa 2017-10-22 14:17:18 CEST

I'd say that it's not a bug. Lightdm uses pam_nologin module. See 'man pam_nologin'.

CC: (none) => jani.valimaa

Comment 2 Stig-Ørjan Smelror 2017-10-22 14:36:03 CEST

Thanks Jani.

I thought I'd be able to log in locally even though /run/nologin was present and that it was meant for remote logins. Guess I was wrong.

But, I was able to log in when I used SDDM... Maybe it's "broken"...


Cheers,
Stig

Comment 3 Stig-Ørjan Smelror 2017-10-22 14:37:03 CEST

Created attachment 9745 [details]
ls --full-time /run/nologin

Comment 4 Stig-Ørjan Smelror 2017-10-22 14:37:46 CEST

Created attachment 9746 [details]
Journal after boot with nologin present

Comment 5 Jani Välimaa 2017-10-22 14:42:47 CEST

(In reply to Stig-Ørjan Smelror from comment #2)
> Thanks Jani.
> 
> I thought I'd be able to log in locally even though /run/nologin was present
> and that it was meant for remote logins. Guess I was wrong.
> 
> But, I was able to log in when I used SDDM... Maybe it's "broken"...
> 

sddm doesn't use pam_nologin.so. See files under /etc/pam.d/.

Comment 6 Jani Välimaa 2017-10-22 14:43:58 CEST

I'm closing this as INVALID.

Resolution: (none) => INVALID
Status: NEW => RESOLVED