Bug#201855: xdm autologin important for tiny devices
Now years later people might be looking at the possibility of using
xdm in all kinds of devices, e.g., Openmoko telephones.
Some of these devices may not even have a keyboard available to type
in one's username and password until after one can spawn a keyboard
emulator program, but one needs to already have logged in to xdm to do
that -- or whatever.
In other situations, e.g., for a operating system on a children's toy,
even with xvkbd or whatever available, it just wouldn't make sense to
demand authorization from the child, etc.
Anyway, please provide a way to "autologin" to a given username.
I'm guessing the implementation would be quite simple:
In some file if the line
Autologin holmes
is detected, then bypass the whole login window sequence, continuing
beyond it as if 'holmes' had successfully logged in.
(Indeed, perhaps just bypassing a large part of the xdm code.)
Even though kdm, gdm, etc. might provide an autologin feature, they
might be more bulky than xdm, and therefore undesirable on tiny
devices.
(No need this year to implement timeouts in case one wants to login as
someone else, etc.)
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