Idea #9150: Automatically login and connect to WIFI if only 1 user

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Written by ubunteando the 27 May 08 at 21:28. Category: Security.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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Ubuntu fresh install should automatically login and connect to WIFI when you power up the computer without asking you for any passwords.

I know people are worried about security... But they should be able to turn pass request off if they dont care and they dont want to enter the pass every time.

I would suggest to autologin and autopass for only one account. Would make things much more confortable :)

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gazilla wrote on the 27 May 08 at 22:17

I chucked out network-manager on my WiFi laptop ages ago. I converted to Wicd. It brings up the WiFi link at startup.

Check out http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ There is an Ubuntu package in hardy.

ubunteando wrote on the 27 May 08 at 22:24

Yeah I had it installed but for some reason it stopped working and I was left without internet until I was able to connect to a wired connection...

So I rather stick with ubuntu's default NM... just hope they teak/update it !!

droetker wrote on the 28 May 08 at 06:24

my computer dows exactly what you want, with wicd and NM...
you can make gdm autologin, and choose no password for the keyring - so when i boot up i am online.

And I thionk it would be not that goot to autologin when there is one user automatically - you can choose that if you want - but on laptops e.g. as default? No.

roshan.george wrote on the 28 May 08 at 10:57

On my computer if the password for the keyring is the same as that for the user's login, then it would automatically connect using the passphrase stored in the keyring.

bgfeldm wrote on the 30 May 08 at 18:30

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For the sake of better security it is always better to default on more secure then less. If the user wishes to autologin then the user can change it to do so.

Passwords protect the system in more ways then one.
-- prohibit local login without password.
-- protect privileged (root or admin) accounts.
-- prohibit installing applications locally or remotely whether the user logged in directly or hacked in remotely to an unprivileged account. this better protects the system from malware and viruses.

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