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It could be a little inprovement entering the username and password while ubuntu is being loaded. Now we must wait for ubuntu to load, then enter the username and password and then wait a little more to load everything else.
My idea is haveing two textfields and an "accept" button in the splash screen so we can enter the username and password there. The checking could be done automatically once ubuntu is loaded.
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tomatz wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 14:23
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Autologin administration, login window, security then enter user name.
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JJRabbit wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 19:32
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This makes the system less secure doesn't it?
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HOLOGRAPHICpizza wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 20:32
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Sounds complicated, buggy and, unnecessary.
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neon wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 21:11
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How would it know who's session to load? Computers can't read minds yet... ;)
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acreman wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 21:11
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One word... NO!
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terlmann wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 22:11
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How about a dialog to switch between the way it is set up , and using GRUB? If you could click a button to switch a setting , reboot, and enter it in at grub.....
(*) Enter Username & password at GDM Prompt
( ) Enter password at Grub Prompt and disable GDM
NOTE : Not recommended for multiple user systems!
( ) Enter password at Grub Prompt AND enter password at GDM
High security option.
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This could also be implemented in the ubuntu installer along with partition encryption.
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Dreamsorcerer wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 18:13
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"How would it know who's session to load?"
It's asking for the username and password...
I think the idea is that during the splash screen it will ask for username and password, then if you enter it before Ubuntu has finished starting up, it will temporarily store the login information. Once Ubuntu has finished loading it will recall the login information and log that user in.
This allows the user to turn on the PC, enter their details almost immediately, then they can leave it to finish booting up, and logging in. Otherwise they have to wait for it to boot up then they can log in, and leave it while it loads the desktop. This is also for multi-user systems, so autologin is not an alternative to this.
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alaintxu.p wrote on the 5 Mar 08 at 13:58
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That's it!!! what Dreamsorcerer said is exactly what i've proposed
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romanov wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 08:47
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I also agree Dreamsorcerer. Initialization logic will remain the same. But in visual layer, we can ask for user name and password and save it until the system has started up.
We can also combine usplash with gdm, but it sounds more difficult.
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shadowfirebird wrote on the 10 Mar 08 at 21:10
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If you enter the username and password but it doesn't do anything with them until it's finished loading -- how is this faster?
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Dreamsorcerer wrote on the 11 Mar 08 at 18:28
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"If you enter the username and password but it doesn't do anything with them until it's finished loading -- how is this faster?"
"This allows the user to turn on the PC, enter their details almost immediately, then they can leave it to finish booting up, and logging in. Otherwise they have to wait for it to boot up then they can log in, and leave it while it loads the desktop. This is also for multi-user systems, so autologin is not an alternative to this."
The user doesn't have to stand there waiting for it to boot before they can login, as I said above, if you read it, nobody actually said this was faster, other than it would be logging in without waiting after boot.
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Ghone wrote on the 5 Jul 08 at 15:46
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But what would be the point? Does it really take such a long time to boot that you can't wait for it? It sounds like a great way to introduce security problems.
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Dreamsorcerer wrote on the 16 Jul 08 at 12:01
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@Ghone
What security problems would it present, it is the same initialization logic as you currently login as, the only difference is that you have the oppurtunity to enter your login details a few seconds earlier. Would the system be more secure if after boot the machine waited 10 seconds before allowing you to login?
I would expect this to benefit users with older computers most, where it might take 30+ seconds to boot up, and they don't want to have to wait that long to enter their details before they can leave the computer to startup.
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