-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@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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