Hi all!
On home computers, people often want to log in without password at all.
This should be possible, and easy to configure. The problem is, you need
a password to connect using ssh, to have sudo rights, to protect others
from setting a new password...
I suggest to allow to log in without typi
Hi Milan,
Milan [2007-02-22 10:44 +0100]:
> Currently, I have to hack /etc/pam.d and /etc/shadow to allow my
> parents to login without password: this is a real lack compared to
> Windows !
This should not be necessary at all. gdm's configuration program
already offers the option of automatic log
> This should not be necessary at all. gdm's configuration program
> already offers the option of automatic login
But that would only be useful in his case:
-if he actually wants his parents to automatically log in every time the
computer is booted, which might not be the case.
-if his parents h
Although GDM can do autologin, it will only work for one user, and not
every user one would wish to make this work.
On 2/22/07, Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Milan,
>
> Milan [2007-02-22 10:44 +0100]:
> > Currently, I have to hack /etc/pam.d and /etc/shadow to allow my
> > parents to
Martin wrote:
> This should not be necessary at all. gdm's configuration program
> already offers the option of automatic login (which should stay off by
> default, of course). If this does not work, can you please file a bug
> against gdm?
This is working fine. But it was thinking of a home comput
Milan a écrit :
> Martin wrote:
>> This should not be necessary at all. gdm's configuration program
>> already offers the option of automatic login (which should stay off by
>> default, of course). If this does not work, can you please file a bug
>> against gdm?
> This is working fine. But it was t
On Thu, 2007-22-02 at 14:46 +0100, Milan wrote:
> Martin wrote:
> > This should not be necessary at all. gdm's configuration program
> > already offers the option of automatic login (which should stay off by
> > default, of course). If this does not work, can you please file a bug
> > against gdm?
On do, 2007-02-22 at 15:54 +0100, Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
> Should we do the same mistakes as in windows ? I think having a
> password is better cause we should teach people about security
> measures. and that gdm password thing's a pretty simple thing but
> means a lot.
True, but I see at lea
On 2/22/07, Jan Claeys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On do, 2007-02-22 at 15:54 +0100, Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
> > Should we do the same mistakes as in windows ? I think having a
> > password is better cause we should teach people about security
> > measures. and that gdm password thing's a prett
On do, 2007-02-22 at 08:29 -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> But kids can learn pretty easily about username/password And by the
> time they know how to read and type my experience is that they will
> use the password method rather easily. I known that my oldest son,
> once I created his first o
On do, 2007-02-22 at 08:06 -0800, George Farris wrote:
> I say forget it. Users should be trained into thinking about
> security. Having a password is a small price to pay. One day they
> will inadvertently install openssh-server and then, lookout.
The PermitEmptyPasswords setting for sshd is
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Jan Claeys wrote:
> On do, 2007-02-22 at 15:54 +0100, Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
>> Should we do the same mistakes as in windows ? I think having a
>> password is better cause we should teach people about security
>> measures. and that gdm password thi
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 08:29 -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> So the kids just had to turn on the computer, and
> within a minute they were in their user session without any
> interactions.
But what happens if they press a key on the keyboard by accident? I
think gdm will just wait there for th
Anthony Yarusso wrote:
> Jan Claeys wrote:
>> On do, 2007-02-22 at 15:54 +0100, Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
>>> Should we do the same mistakes as in windows ? I think having a
>>> password is better cause we should teach people about security
>>> measures. and that gdm password thing's a pretty simp
On 2/22/07, Michael R. Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 08:29 -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > So the kids just had to turn on the computer, and
> > within a minute they were in their user session without any
> > interactions.
>
> But what happens if they press a key on t
On do, 2007-02-22 at 13:40 -0500, Anthony Yarusso wrote:
> Jan Claeys wrote:
> > True, but I see at least one exception: young children don't know how to
> > enter a username & password. OTOH they don't need administrator (sudo)
> > rights of course...
> >
> I disagree. First, ime children seem t
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Jan Claeys wrote:
> On do, 2007-02-22 at 13:40 -0500, Anthony Yarusso wrote:
>> Jan Claeys wrote:
>>> True, but I see at least one exception: young children don't know how to
>>> enter a username & password. OTOH they don't need administrator (sudo)
>
Hey, you guys have a geek way of thinking I didn't expected to encounter
on an Ubuntu mailing list ! I'm not talking about five-year-old
children's ability to type in a password, nor of the need of their
parents to control them. I'm talking of making life easier to users who
want to use this fe
Milan a écrit :
> Hey, you guys have a geek way of thinking I didn't expected to encounter
> on an Ubuntu mailing list ! I'm not talking about five-year-old
> children's ability to type in a password, nor of the need of their
> parents to control them. I'm talking of making life easier to users
> Moreover, this feature won't bring down security at all: you still need
> to enter your password to use gksudo, or ssh... This is only an old
> Unix-geek reflex putting down Windows about its lacks. But this is not a
> lack, even Windows has many! Linux power is that you can enable almost
> a
I'm not tying to make a troll in any way, and I'm sorry if this subject
is fulling the list with useless arguments. And I don't think neither
that we should compare Linux to Windows: what I propose is really far
from ActiveX, and I will castigate anyone intending to create this for
Linux.
But
Milan a écrit :
> I think this kind of use is a main target for Ubuntu, and using no
> password at all should be proposed to the user when he creates an account.
that was in your message date 22.02.2007 14:46 on my computer.
So I understood *no password at all* .
Now that you're saying clearly t
I interely support Milan idea.
Please stop pulling the topic elsewhere.
On 2/23/07, Milan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not tying to make a troll in any way, and I'm sorry if this subject
> is fulling the list with useless arguments. And I don't think neither
> that we should compare Linux to W
On Friday 23 February 2007 15:16, Milan wrote:
> But you're mistaking on my proposal. I just ask to allow *GDM* to skip
> password check, just like it *currently does* with autologin.
I'm all for it, even more so because KDM has an option for exactly this
feature.
Cheers,
Florian
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Florian Hackenberger wrote:
> On Friday 23 February 2007 15:16, Milan wrote:
>> But you're mistaking on my proposal. I just ask to allow *GDM* to skip
>> password check, just like it *currently does* with autologin.
> I'm all for it, even more so because KDM has an option for exactly this
> featur
On vr, 2007-02-23 at 11:37 +0100, Milan wrote:
> Hey, you guys have a geek way of thinking I didn't expected to encounter
> on an Ubuntu mailing list ! I'm not talking about five-year-old
> children's ability to type in a password, nor of the need of their
> parents to control them. I'm talking
On Monday 26 February 2007 22:33, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> So does GDM.
No, it doesn't. As the OP tried to point out, there is a semantic difference
between autologin and password-less login. Autologin automatically logs one
specific user into the system, while password-less login requires the user to
On 2/27/07, Florian Hackenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 26 February 2007 22:33, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > So does GDM.
> No, it doesn't. As the OP tried to point out, there is a semantic difference
> between autologin and password-less login. Autologin automatically logs one
> specific
Jan Claeys wrote:
> On vr, 2007-02-23 at 11:37 +0100, Milan wrote:
>> The question is, do we want to discourage people from switching to
>> Linux, and do we want Ubuntu to be the best distribution for home
>> end-users?
>
> I don't believe removing security measures at the same time as Microsoft
>
So, should I open a feature request ? On launchpad or on gnome.org ?
The question to think about is pam-keyring and passwordless login: the
user is likely to have to type in is keyring password anyway.
Milan
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On lun, 2007-03-05 at 10:41 +0100, Milan wrote:
> So, should I open a feature request ? On launchpad or on gnome.org ?
Rather on gnome.org, no reason for the feature to be distribution
specific.
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Done :
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414862
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