lucid has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any
updates. Marking the lucid task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu Lucid)
Status: Fix Committed => Won't Fix
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/562509
Title:
Automounts users autofs home directories by default (face browser
disabled)
Status in GDM: The Gnome Display Manager:
Fix Released
Status in gdm package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in gdm source package in Lucid:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
Binary package hint: gdm
Even with the face browser disabled when GDM starts it mounts up to
100 users autofs home dirs. This is an issue since having hundreds of
desktops hosts automatically mount autofs home dirs when they'll most
likely not be used could cause a resource issue on the file server.
This is as a possible security too issue since the system is
automatically mounting home dirs without authentication.
Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch) - sync'd from main repos on
April 13th
Release: 10.04
Package:
gdm:
Installed: 2.30.0-0ubuntu4
Candidate: 2.30.0-0ubuntu4
Version table:
*** 2.30.0-0ubuntu4 0
500 http://apt-dev/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
What was done:
Face browser disabled per:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/FAQ#GNOME%20Display%20Manager%20%28gdm%29
sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type boolean
/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true
Expected behavior:
GDM displays username prompt with no filesystems mounted with the exception
of those in /etc/fstab. Once a user logs in successfully their home dir should
automount.
Actual behavior:
GDM displays username prompt, up to 100+ home dirs from /etc/autofs.home are
mounted.
There is a bug filed in upstream for this as well:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607728
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