Re: Appropriateness of autologin

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:20, Dominique Devriese wrote:
> Ron Johnson writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:00, Dominique Devriese wrote:
> >> Ron Johnson writes:
> >> > Should passwordless logins even be allowed?
> >>
> >> It's the admin who decides about them, so I don't see a problem.
> 
> > An analogy: Should a Windows Admin be able to decide whether
> > programs should be able to run within MS Outlook?  Sure it's
> > conventient, but it's a *huge* security hole.
> 
> Please don't start a flamewar on this.  An admin can enable
> passwordless logins in countless other ways already, and this is not
> going to change, trust me.

Starting a flame war was/is not my intention, and the thread won't
devolve into one on my account.

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