[CentOS] X11 on 5.3 not ALWAYS autologin

Fri May 29 19:03:04 UTC 2009
Gary Greene <ggreene at minervanetworks.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Dag Wieers
> Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 11:55 AM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] X11 on 5.3 not ALWAYS autologin
> 
> On Fri, 29 May 2009, Bill Campbell wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, May 29, 2009, Jerry Geis wrote:
> >
> >> I think what is happening is UNKOWN keys are continuously getting
> >> spit out. So error keycodes perhaps stops the autologin process.
> >>
> >> I get many errors about unknown key pressed released for
> >> e03e, e03f, e014.
> >>
> >> This is a new HP HDX18 laptop. Thought it was a regular looking
> >> keyboard layout.
> >>
> >> Anyone ran into this?
> >
> > Probably not as autologin is an extremely Bad Idea(tm),
> > particularly for laptops as it allows anybody who can turn the
> > power on access to the machine.
> 
> It may be bad by default, but it is not unreasonable for 
> custom things. 
> Like eg. a booth laptop or a media/TV setup.
> 
> On my CentOS-based TV system I also do autologin and it works 
> fine there 
> all of the time.


Not only that, but in a personal users notebook that only wants software freedom and doesn't care as much about the security aspect, I can see it too. Mind you, I'm too paranoid to have that turned on, but I _can_ see some users wanting it.

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