Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (710 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Markus Slopianka wrote:

> > So, why not change to a manual log in. Why not? It´s more secure in
> > the case, that there´s someone other in your family, who wants to
> > change your files, or just read them (this could be happen.).
> >
> > The question is not: "Why should we do it?" It´s just "Why
> > *shouldn´t* we do it?"
>
> If there is only a single user account present, logging in
> automatically is better usability.
>
> Autologin allows the system to fully boot up incl. to connect to WLANs
> and not stop at KDM. During boot one can leave the room.
>
> If more than one account is created, the account manager should ask to
> disable autologin.
>
> Seriously, you are just a corner case and corner cases like you can be
> bothered to untick a little checkbox once.

I would tend to agree with that - I untick that box by default myself on
every install, it's virtually automatic.  It's a bit of a trade-off,
usability vs. security.  Or how many installations are single-user vs.
multi-user.  In principle I agree with Kims proposal, but in practice
it's a non-issue.

> If you really want that rudimentary security, a way better option is
> to enable autologin but then set the option to automatically lock the
> screen after login. That way the system loads completely (incl.
> network connections) and your corner case is still solved.

Or automatically disable the auto-login when the next user is defined.
(i.e. when the systems goes from single- to multi-user.)


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Per Jessen, Zürich (16.6°C)

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