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Re: Does KDM need a password?



On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 09:30:35PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> My laptop password-protects the harddrive, to unlock it I must enter a
> password before the BIOS starts the OS. Is it thus redundant to have a
> password at the KDM logon screen? I am the only user of this laptop,

that'd mean you are sure you always use your laptop like:

1. on, active session, you in front of kyb/scr
2. off / suspend to disk

anything in between would benefit from some protection other than bios/disk.

-- 
paolo


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