Re: Use foe Other login.

[Tom Horsley <tom horsley att net>]

On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:06:17 -0500
Aaron Konstam wrote:

> No matter how I try I can't  see any productive use for the Other login
> on the gdm login screen.
> 
> Can someone explain?

You can click "Other" to get an actual user name field to type in so
you can type something like "root" and then get told you are an
idiot for logging it as root :-).

More useful, perhaps, you can type an NIS login name which doesn't
show up in the list of names. In fact, if you have no local logins,
but only NIS authentication, all you see on the gdm login
screen is: "Other..." which makes no sense at all :-).