To auto-login or to not auto-login?

Lutzer M.Lutzer at gmx.de
Thu Apr 13 11:57:43 UTC 2006


Why is the GDM theme with clickable pictures not the default one? It
would be simpler for non-Linux people. Also if someone else, a friend or
college, uses the computer.

Roelof de Groot schrieb:
> Yeah, maybe you should give them a gdm login with clickable pictures for
> username.
> THen they only have to fill in their pasword.
> Most non-technical users have seen/used windows xp before, so a
> clickable picture is familiar for them if they used their windows xp
> with multiple accounts on it for family use...
> Think I would do that...
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 12:26 +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote:
>> Daniel Carrera wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > 
>> > Okay, say I give a computer to a non-technical user willing to try
>> > Ubuntu. Should it be set to auto-login?
>> > 
>> > On the one hand, he'll think it's annoying to login every time. On the
>> > other, he's more likely to forget his password if he never has to type
>> > it and that'll be a problem for installing software.
>> > 
>> > Does anyone have experience with non-technical users?
>>
>> Get him to login.  Make it sound like a feature rather than an
>> inconvenience.  Which, of course, it is.  Point out that this is
>> indicative of the excellent security in Linux.  Which may not be
>> entirely accurate, but why bother a non-technical user with technical
>> details?  :)
>>




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