Hi list, didn't somebody else stumble that nice kdm-feature called 'Automatic login' ? Must have crept into my systems via some recent update or maybe it's a SuSE 9.0-'feature'. Anyhow I'm appalled that this is now enabled by default - can't believe someone could be stupid enough to implement such crap! Why don't they just abandon passwords altogether? Is this distro now called SuSE-Windows? Thomas
For the scenario where there is a single home user, no security threats, this is quite a decent option. I only see a problem with it being enabled by default when you create a user at install time... Maybe this should just be an option there and not enabled... I always disable it... however I have no idea how you disable it in other way that at system installation... Daniel Thomas Roth wrote:
Hi list, didn't somebody else stumble that nice kdm-feature called 'Automatic login' ? Must have crept into my systems via some recent update or maybe it's a SuSE 9.0-'feature'. Anyhow I'm appalled that this is now enabled by default - can't believe someone could be stupid enough to implement such crap! Why don't they just abandon passwords altogether? Is this distro now called SuSE-Windows?
Thomas
Oh, disabling is easy - fire up kcontrol and look for Sytem Administration - Log Manager - Convenience (needs to be done in Administrator Mode). It is just that you wouldn't suspect that thing to be enabled by default Thomas On Friday 19 March 2004 11:36, Daniel Secareanu wrote:
For the scenario where there is a single home user, no security threats, this is quite a d ecent option. I only see a problem with it being enabled by default when you create a user at install time... Maybe this should just be an option there and not enabled... I always disable it... however I have no idea how you disable it in other way that at system installation... Daniel
Thomas Roth wrote:
Hi list, didn't somebody else stumble that nice kdm-feature called 'Automatic login' ? Must have crept into my systems via some recent update or maybe it's a SuSE 9.0-'feature'. Anyhow I'm appalled that this is now enabled by default - can't believe someone could be stupid enough to implement such crap! Why don't they just abandon passwords altogether? Is this distro now called SuSE-Windows?
Thomas
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On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 12:36, Thomas Roth wrote:
Hi list, didn't somebody else stumble that nice kdm-feature called 'Automatic login' ? Must have crept into my systems via some recent update or maybe it's a SuSE 9.0-'feature'. Anyhow I'm appalled that this is now enabled by default - can't believe someone could be stupid enough to implement such crap! Why don't they just abandon passwords altogether? Is this distro now called SuSE-Windows?
I use SuSE 9.0 with the kde3.2 packages. My kdmrc has this feature disabled by default. Maybe it's a config thing on your side? There is also a automatic login after crash, which is different to autologin.
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Quoting Thomas Roth
didn't somebody else stumble that nice kdm-feature called 'Automatic login' ? Must have crept into my systems via some recent update or maybe it's a SuSE 9.0-'feature'. Anyhow I'm appalled that this is now enabled by default - can't believe someone could be stupid enough to implement such crap! Why don't they just abandon passwords altogether? Is this distro now called SuSE-Windows?
If I'm sitting in front of your machine with malicious intent, auto-login is the least of your worries. Heck, I could just toss in a Knoppix CD and nothing short of cryptofs will save you...
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