Might be a good move

Posted Jun 27, 2025 23:27 UTC (Fri) by linuxrocks123 (subscriber, #34648)
In reply to: Might be a good move by elsandosgrande
Parent article: GNOME deepens systemd dependencies

> Do you mean that the login manager shouldn't report errors to the user at all, that it should just report a generic “login failed” error and that the user or administrator then should look in the system log(s) to see the details of said failure, or …? Neither of the two interpretations of your statement that I can think of right now sound like a great user experience compared to the login manager giving the user at least a bit more information regarding login failures.

mjg59 got into a bit of a stupid argument about whether it would work at all, not whether it would work well. Yes, of course an ideal greeter would say why the login failed. pam_info is the function that allows that message to be printed, but it has some prereqs that mean I don't think it actually works with the current versions of login and xdm. I expect that would be easy to fix if someone wanted to fix it.

Might be a good move

Posted Jun 28, 2025 23:59 UTC (Sat) by linuxrocks123 (subscriber, #34648) [Link]

Meant to say "mjg59 and I got into a bit of a stupid argument"