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yup. think it's fine to have a service that manages accounts, but a timeout in contacting it resulting in the start of a process that creates users (with privi
by a-dub 6y ago
yup. think it's fine to have a service that manages accounts, but a timeout in contacting it resulting in the start of a process that creates users (with privileges) is definitely no good. would be interesting to understand how it happened. is it a straight up bug? is it some sort of fallback in gdm to work around non-responsive account-service (potentially on new machines)? is it some sort of backwards compatibility thing? i can't imagine that it was coded that way intentionally, would be interesting to understand how it ended up that way...