Appropriateness of autologin (was Re: [FAQ] Passwordless logins don't work in KDM 3.2)
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:00, Dominique Devriese wrote:
> Ron Johnson writes:
>
> > On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 09:59, Dominique Devriese wrote:
> >> Jeff Elkins writes:
> >>
> >> > Since upgrading to KDE3.2, kdm will no longer allow autologin,
> >> > giving me an authentication failure. Is there a workaround for
> >> > this?
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> This is a known problem. I have added the following text to
> >> http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianKDE:
> >>
> >> ** Passwordless logins don't work in kdm. This is a known problem
> >> with a known fix. Replace the file /etc/pam.d/kdm-np with the one
> >> from http://www.kde-debian.org/~domi/kdm-np as an easy fix.
>
> > 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.
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