Ugg, sent to the wrong list. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ista Zahn Date: Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:38 AM Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] disable autologin as default To: opensuse@opensuse.org On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:

On 06/20/2011 08:13 AM, phanisvara das pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

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On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:28:06 +0530, Stefan Seyfried wrote:

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Hm, maybe I should finally use YaST instead of "useradd" to add a new user So I don't understand what the whining in this thread is all about...

it's about if those who want auto-login have to click an extra option during install, or the other ones. highly important matter, of course...

NO! The OP asked how to turn it off on a system that came pre-installed with openSUSE. He did not ask for other peoples opinion on why it is one way or another.

Well, no actually that is not what the OP asked. The OP posted a feature request asking that the installer default should be changed, not how to change it after the fact. If the question had been how to change it, the answer would have simply been YaST --> User and Group Administration --> Expert Options --> Login Settings uncheck "Auto login". phani got it right, it's about who should have to click a (few) button(s)... Having said that, there is a problem with the autologin system, and that is that the kde config tools do not work. In my view this is the actual problem. We can say "if you don't like the default, change it" and that is fine. But then we see a big fat setting dialog in kde system settings that says "enable auto-login" that DOES NOTHING, which leads to a great deal of confusion about how one is actually supposed to change this behavior. I believe that is what needs to be fixed. - Ista

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