About early gdm logon

[Rahul Sundaram]

Antonio Vargas wrote:

>On Apr 5, 2005 5:02 PM, Chris Ricker <kaboom at oobleck.net> wrote:
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>>On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Ray Strode wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>>Just noticed that the new gdm in rawhide allows early logon before the
>>>>entire system is up. But as I read about it in the init script does not
>>>>actually allow users to logon until the entire system is up. My question
>>>>is what is the purpose of this if you can't logon when the screen
>>>>appears?
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>>>There are a number of advantages to starting gdm early.
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>>>1) no rhgb means we don't have to start two X servers during the boot
>>>up process.  This means faster bootup, less badness on bad hardware,
>>>etc...
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>Is rhgb the one that show's a progress bar while starting services?
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yes it is. Red Hat graphical boot


>>>4) The user can type their username and password as soon as a login
>>>screen appears, then walk away--get coffee whatever--and come back with
>>>it all logged in.
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>Yeah great security unless the desktop stays locked by default ;)
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you have typically home desktop users doing this and its  not a security 
concern for them.


regards
Rahul