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Bug 546370 - GDM should have option to lock screen on autologin
GDM should have option to lock screen on autologin
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 469571
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-08-05 07:29 UTC by Tomasz Sterna
Modified: 2009-03-24 21:02 UTC
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Description Tomasz Sterna 2008-08-05 07:29:51 UTC 
Autologin feature of GDM is very usefull for workstations with only one user.

But I do not want to leave my workstation available to all my co-workers just after it boots. KDM has a feature of automatically locking the screen with screensaver just after autologin.
This way after power up, the default user is logged in, all the background applications start, and user is asked for a password to access the screen.

Other information:
Comment 1 Brian Cameron 2008-08-05 23:05:57 UTC 
Wouldn't it be easy enough to just set up xscreensaver so it always starts up when you log in via autostart if you are using the latest version of gnome-session, or via /usr/share/gnome/default.session otherwise?
Comment 2 Tomasz Sterna 2008-08-07 15:05:06 UTC 
1. GNOME uses gnome-screensaver, not xscreensaver.

2. It would be possible, but definately not "easier".
Comment 3 Brian Cameron 2008-08-07 16:18:22 UTC 
Issue #1 is one of the reasons I think my above suggestion is "easier" than writing the code to make it even more easy.  If you wanted GDM to just manage this, then it would require some configuration options added.  I'm also not sure 
that this sort of feature would be a commonly used one.  Most users don't use 
autostart, let alone such wizbang configurations.

That said, if you wanted to write a patch to make GDM more wizbangy, feel free to attach it.  Or if you just wanted to suggest that the documentation be updated to explain how a user can configure this, then please suggest the instructions once you get it working.

At any rate, this isn't a bug.  It is, perhaps, an enhancement request.  Could you please update the bug report to mark it as an enhancement in the "Severity" field, especially if you don't plan to provide a patch.
Comment 4 Tomasz Sterna 2008-08-07 19:48:56 UTC 
I did select "Usability - This is a suggestion for how the application could be made easier to use." option on the "New bug" page. Thus I expected the bug to be created as a feature request. :-)
Comment 5 Jarno Suni 2009-02-09 20:57:15 UTC 
GDM is not used only with Gnome, but e.g. with Xfce. Gnome-screensaver and xscreensaver are daemons, one of which may be autostarted by a Xfce init scripts or autostarted applications. Even for Gnome, would starting such a daemon already in GDM work?
Comment 6 Jarno Suni 2009-02-10 08:15:35 UTC 
This is a duplicate of Bug 469571.
Comment 7 Ray Strode [halfline] 2009-03-24 21:02:16 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 469571 ***