On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 04:49:41PM -0700, Jason Dagit wrote: > Marcus these are my feelings exactly. I think having to type login to > login is redundant.
Well, it's easy enough to change. > Just like win2k where you type ctrl-alt-del (which > according to MS improves security), before you login. It does! You should always do that, especially if you are using a shared terminal (like one in a public computer pool). It's very important to avoid being tricked into entering the password into a faked login program. We should have a similar feature in the console client when it is done. > I think the normal case is logining, Normal for what? :) Remember that we are developing the GNU system for the first time here, we have yet to determine what is the normal case. > and that is someone wants to use some other feature with > out loging in first, then they should be the one that has to do something > different. How about they hit F12, then they get what is now the default? Well, there is an idea about having a login prompt that allows you to drop into a no-user login shell. This could be a good third option, or an argument switch for the existing login prompt program. > just a thought...I mean on my computers that don't have 'net access root > doesn't even have a password. Use security when you need it, and > conveince when you can. Everybody agrees with that, I suppose :) We should definitely disable it for remote access by default. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/
