From 21c488b6ce80159484015dfd0f58ef7748a24f6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lukas <103962359+L4XB@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:09:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(linux): recognize a login screen whose greeter uses
 another nologin path (#16675)

* fix(linux): recognize a login screen whose greeter uses another nologin path

is_prelogin() reads the active user's passwd entry and treats /bin/false or /usr/sbin/nologin as a greeter account. Greeter accounts on Arch use /usr/bin/nologin (gdm, sddm and lightdm) and others /sbin/nologin, so there a login screen was not detected: the audio service kept retrying the _pa ipc every second, which #16390 stopped at a login screen, and file transfer used the greeter's name. Match any nologin path.

* fix(linux): match nologin only in the shell field of the passwd entry

Checking the whole getent line also matched a home directory such as /home/nologin-test. Read the last field of each line and require it to end in /false or /nologin. Output with several lines, as getent prints for an empty name, still counts if any entry has such a shell, as before.

* fix(linux): compare the greeter shell with the known paths only

Match the shell field against /bin/false, /usr/bin/false, /usr/sbin/nologin, /sbin/nologin and /usr/bin/nologin instead of any path that ends in /false or /nologin, so a custom shell elsewhere is not taken for a login screen.
---
 src/platform/linux.rs | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/platform/linux.rs b/src/platform/linux.rs
index ef06c98f3..beed657d3 100644
--- a/src/platform/linux.rs
+++ b/src/platform/linux.rs
@@ -1424,7 +1424,17 @@ pub fn is_prelogin() -> bool {
     }
     let name = get_active_username();
     if let Ok(res) = run_cmds(&format!("getent passwd {}", name)) {
-        return res.contains("/bin/false") || res.contains("/usr/sbin/nologin");
+        return res.lines().any(|entry| {
+            let shell = entry.trim().rsplit(':').next().unwrap_or_default();
+            matches!(
+                shell,
+                "/bin/false"
+                    | "/usr/bin/false"
+                    | "/usr/sbin/nologin"
+                    | "/sbin/nologin"
+                    | "/usr/bin/nologin"
+            )
+        });
     }
     false
 }