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Previous versions of Ubuntu always prompted users for BOTH a user name and
password. Now it appears that the or a user name is loaded at startup and if
the user agrees with the selection then the enter key is pressed and a password
in entered. This makes Karmic slightly less secure than previous versions
which required the user to enter both at the login screen. If Linux is to
continue to advertise itself as being a more secure operating system then the
convenience of having the OS preselect my user name at startup should give way
to the older method of having the user required to supply both.
Is there a way to disable this auto selecting of a user?
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Nov 29 11:23:40 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic x86_64
** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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Ubuntu 9.10 loses some security via login screen
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/489984
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