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I have a Manjaro machine with mostly default programs in the background. I recently found out that when signing in to the other tty's (the ones you go to by pressing CTRL+ALT+F#), it logs in withou...
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SpookedByRoaches
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2023-09-11T18:41:44Z (about 1 year ago)
Why do tty's log in even with a wrong password or none at all?
I have a Manjaro machine with mostly default programs in the background. I recently found out that when signing in to the other tty's (the ones you go to by pressing CTRL+ALT+F#), it logs in without a password, meaning I can put in whatever and it doesn't fail. How can I fix that or at least see where the problem is coming from? I have configured PAM to use fprintd for the logins that I usually use. It works as expected on everything that I regularly use: SDDM, swaylock, sudo, ssh. However, in the tty's it just logs in without an issue. I have also noticed that when logging in to the normal user which has fingerprints configured and tied to the user, it waits for the fingerprint device, but even when the fingerprint times out, it just logs in. The root user just logs in without waiting for anything.