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Bug 565150 - re-enable the Autologin feature through a Login Management GUI
re-enable the Autologin feature through a Login Management GUI
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 587750
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.24.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-12-20 03:17 UTC by Jean-Philippe
Modified: 2009-10-07 18:41 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24



Description Jean-Philippe 2008-12-20 03:17:15 UTC
Getting back what we had before, and what KDE, OS X and M$ users still have today: Allow a simple GUI tool to configure allowing the user of a simple machine to boot all the way to the Desktop without prompting for users, passwords whatever.

Other information:
[Pressure is building up] I read somewhere that re-enabling the feature was "under way" but the basic user of a basic computer that is not your usual over-paranoid *nixer still has to perform quite dangerous tasks to get to the same point; and it conflicts with stuff like WPA automatic reconnection which is a plain shame. Once and for all: It's not because Linux aims at being overly secure that I cannot CHOOSE to lower the machine to "zero-credentials-needed" mode. I see tons of reasons to do so, and not every chip on the planet has multiple users each with carefully encrypted personal files. [Steam released, thanks and sorry - keep up the good work].
Comment 1 Brian Cameron 2009-10-07 18:41:20 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 587750 ***