#77350 wdm does not handle password expiry

Package:
wdm
Source:
wdm
Description:
WINGs Display Manager - an xdm replacement with a WindowMaker look
Submitter:
Ethan Benson
Date:
2014-07-25 12:33:05 UTC
Severity:
normal
#77350#5
Date:
2000-11-18 13:08:31 UTC
From:
To:
when a user's password expires wdm simply rejects thier login rather
then forcing them to change thier password like /bin/login does.
#77350#8
Date:
2000-12-04 16:38:23 UTC
From:
To:
Hi Jerome!

I recently took over maintance of the Debian package of wdm, and I'm
working through old bug reports. There are some that are not Debian
specific:

* wdm does not handle PAM properly.
  While wdm supports PAM, it is not 'pam-compliant'. For example, PAM
  can handle password-expiration, but this requires that the pam modules
  can talk directly to the user. Wdm cannot handle this behaviour.
  (see http://bugs.debian.org/77350).
* wdm does not seem to compile and install a chooser. However, the chooser
  is needed for wdm to be able to handle indirect XDMCP requests.
  (see http://bugs.debian.org/52215).

Furthermore, some changes/patches that are not Debian-specific, have
been introduced into the debian package. You might want to take a look
at those. You can find them at
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/source/x11/wdm_1.20-1.diff.gz
(or ../wdm_1.20-2.diff.gz after I upload a new version tonight)
(all debian specific patches have been put into wdm-1.20/debian).