Re: Appropriateness of autologin (was Re: [FAQ] Passwordless logins don't work in KDM 3.2)

2004-03-11 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 18:39, Derek Broughton wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >>>Should passwordless logins even be allowed? > >> > >>It's the admin who decides about them, so I don't see a problem. > > > > An analogy: > > Should a Windows Admin be able to decide whether programs should >

Re: Appropriateness of autologin (was Re: [FAQ] Passwordless logins don't work in KDM 3.2)

2004-03-10 Thread Derek Broughton
Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>>Should passwordless logins even be allowed? >> >>It's the admin who decides about them, so I don't see a problem. > > An analogy: > Should a Windows Admin be able to decide whether programs should > be able to run within MS Outlook? Sure it's conventient, but it's > a *hug

Re: [FAQ] Passwordless logins don't work in KDM 3.2

2004-03-10 Thread Dominique Devriese
David Pye writes: > Thirdly, as kdm already does support it (excluding this minor > regression, obviously!) why remove it? It's not like it's default, > or even, arguably, easy to get working without editing files, so you > can't enable it by mistake! Actually, it's pretty easy to enable from kco

Re: [FAQ] Passwordless logins don't work in KDM 3.2

2004-03-10 Thread David Pye
Hmm, Note I said 'from KDM's point of view', not from the system's point of view :p David On Wednesday 10 March 2004 17:36, Jan De Luyck wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 10 March 2004 18:34, David Pye wrote: > > It does work? > > > > Hmm, if so, then it m

Re: [FAQ] Passwordless logins don't work in KDM 3.2

2004-03-10 Thread Jan De Luyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 10 March 2004 18:34, David Pye wrote: > It does work? > > Hmm, if so, then it matters little to me which one is used. > > If I might ask, what's the difference, from KDM's point of view, as the > user isn't prompted for a password in eithe

Re: [FAQ] Passwordless logins don't work in KDM 3.2

2004-03-10 Thread David Pye
It does work? Hmm, if so, then it matters little to me which one is used. If I might ask, what's the difference, from KDM's point of view, as the user isn't prompted for a password in either scenario, effectively making either one a passwordless login... David On Wednesday 10 March 2004 17:26

Re: [FAQ] Passwordless logins don't work in KDM 3.2

2004-03-10 Thread David Pye
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 17:22, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Firstly, my mother's PC - she is the only person who ever used it, and > > can even access it, so why can't I allow her to autologin? It's one less > > thing for her to worry about. > > That's an easy one to shoot down: > http://www.ananova

Re: [FAQ] Passwordless logins don't work in KDM 3.2

2004-03-10 Thread Martin Küchler
Am Mittwoch, 10. März 2004 18:06 schrieb David Pye: > > Should passwordless logins even be allowed? > > Absolutely - there are a number of scenarios where this behaviour is almost > mandatory - I have two. > > Firstly, my mother's PC - she is the only person who ever used it, and can > even access

Re: [FAQ] Passwordless logins don't work in KDM 3.2

2004-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:06, David Pye wrote: > On Wednesday 10 March 2004 16:54, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 09:59, Dominique Devriese wrote: > > > Jeff Elkins writes: [snip] > > Should passwordless logins even be allowed? > > Absolutely - there are a number of scenarios where th

Re: [FAQ] Passwordless logins don't work in KDM 3.2

2004-03-10 Thread Dominique Devriese
Ron Johnson writes: > On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 09:59, Dominique Devriese wrote: >> Jeff Elkins writes: >> >> > Since upgrading to KDE3.2, kdm will no longer allow autologin, >> > giving me an authentication failure. Is there a workaround for >> > this? >> >> Hi, >> >> This is a known problem. I hav

Re: [FAQ] Passwordless logins don't work in KDM 3.2

2004-03-10 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:54:04AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 09:59, Dominique Devriese wrote: > > ** Passwordless logins don't work in kdm. This is a known problem > >with a known fix. Replace the file /etc/pam.d/kdm-np with the one > >from http://www.kde-debian.or

Appropriateness of autologin (was Re: [FAQ] Passwordless logins don't work in KDM 3.2)

2004-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:00, Dominique Devriese wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: > > > On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 09:59, Dominique Devriese wrote: > >> Jeff Elkins writes: > >> > >> > Since upgrading to KDE3.2, kdm will no longer allow autologin, > >> > giving me an authentication failure. Is there a work

Re: [FAQ] Passwordless logins don't work in KDM 3.2

2004-03-10 Thread David Pye
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 16:54, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 09:59, Dominique Devriese wrote: > > Jeff Elkins writes: > > > Since upgrading to KDE3.2, kdm will no longer allow autologin, > > > giving me an authentication failure. Is there a workaround for > > > this? > > > > Hi, >

Re: [FAQ] Passwordless logins don't work in KDM 3.2

2004-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 09:59, Dominique Devriese wrote: > Jeff Elkins writes: > > > Since upgrading to KDE3.2, kdm will no longer allow autologin, > > giving me an authentication failure. Is there a workaround for > > this? > > Hi, > > This is a known problem. I have added the following text to

Re: [FAQ] Passwordless logins don't work in KDM 3.2

2004-03-10 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 10:59 am, Dominique Devriese wrote: >Jeff Elkins writes: >> Since upgrading to KDE3.2, kdm will no longer allow autologin, >> giving me an authentication failure. Is there a workaround for >> this? > >Hi, > >This is a known problem. I have added the following text to >h

[FAQ] Passwordless logins don't work in KDM 3.2

2004-03-10 Thread Dominique Devriese
Jeff Elkins writes: > Since upgrading to KDE3.2, kdm will no longer allow autologin, > giving me an authentication failure. Is there a workaround for > this? Hi, This is a known problem. I have added the following text to http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianKDE: ** Passwordless logins don't work i