Xlock on login
Hi, I wanted to propose this as a feature request for GDM, but I'm not sure if it's the right place, therefor I ask it here. Wouldn't it be copol if you could have GDM automaticly log in a specifed user (like it's possible now) but have the X-server locked before gnome starts up? So, gnome will start up in te background but the Xserver would still be locked so noone can do stuff with your desktop before the password is entered. I'd love this as because I always save my gnome sessions, it takes some time to start up gnome. Nowadays, I boot my computer, wait for GDM, enter my password and wait again. It would be better to just boot my computer, do some stuff, enter my apssword and be able to work with it immediately. What do you think about this ? Are there security problems ? Where should I propose this ? Karel Demeyer http://gnometux.blogspot.com ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: Xlock on login
Hi, Hey ... In se the idea isn't too bad, but I see one problem: I got Gaim and a terminal running Irssi in my session. So if I'd use this system, boot my PC, and only return an hour later or so, I'll be online with both systems, people will start talking to me, and they wont get any response, something lots of people hate. One could get around this by giving special states to applications in gnome-session (which defines whether the app should be started when GDM times out, *or* when the user actually logs in). Next to this (although I'm not 100% sure this is a big problem) if I (eg) configure my brother's PC to do this for his user, and I still got an account on the machine, I could ctrl-alt-f1, login on console, then use some bug in some program to read data out of the memory of one of the processes running (under his UID), or do some other bad things. That'd be due to a bug in a desktop app of course, which GDM/gnome-session can't predict nor prevent. Karel Demeyer http://gnometux.blogspot.com Ikke http://www.eikke.com ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: Xlock on login
Le vendredi 28 janvier 2005 16:26 +0100, Ikke a crit : Hi, Hey ... In se the idea isn't too bad, but I see one problem: I got Gaim and a terminal running Irssi in my session. So if I'd use this system, boot my PC, and only return an hour later or so, I'll be online with both systems, people will start talking to me, and they wont get any response, something lots of people hate. Once Galago is integrated, it will see that your session is xlocked, so it will declare you as away from your computer. So people won't hate you. I like that xlock-on-login idea .. Xav ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: Xlock on login
Perhaps gdm should be preloading gnome components in the background after it displays the login screen. If gnome is in memory already, the startup is just a couple of seconds (on my system anyway). Karel Demeyer wrote: Hi, I wanted to propose this as a feature request for GDM, but I'm not sure if it's the right place, therefor I ask it here. Wouldn't it be copol if you could have GDM automaticly log in a specifed user (like it's possible now) but have the X-server locked before gnome starts up? So, gnome will start up in te background but the Xserver would still be locked so noone can do stuff with your desktop before the password is entered. I'd love this as because I always save my gnome sessions, it takes some time to start up gnome. Nowadays, I boot my computer, wait for GDM, enter my password and wait again. It would be better to just boot my computer, do some stuff, enter my apssword and be able to work with it immediately. What do you think about this ? Are there security problems ? Where should I propose this ? Karel Demeyer http://gnometux.blogspot.com ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
