No, it didn't change. The request isn't exactly wrong, thus I do not want to close the bug, but your use case is special enough to say that changing configuration files is not the worst solution in the world.
Feel free to discuss this with gdm upstream, of course. -- Simpler integration for "local device" permissions https://launchpad.net/bugs/10225 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs