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. -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]