#428617 gdm: Autologin with screen locked

Package:
gdm3
Source:
gdm3
Description:
GNOME Display Manager
Submitter:
Josh Triplett
Date:
2021-07-05 17:21:02 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Tags:
#428617#5
Date:
2007-06-12 23:23:02 UTC
From:
To:
My laptop has only one user: myself.  Autologin would improve convenience, but
I want the security of requiring a password.  If gdm had an option to pre-fill
the login name and just prompt for a password, that would save some time.
However, it would save even more time to autologin but lock the screen before
starting any programs.  This would allow GNOME to load while I type in my
password; it would also mean that if I started up the system and walked away,
it would have GNOME fully loaded when I came back, rather than just waiting
for me to log in.

- Josh Triplett
#428617#10
Date:
2007-06-16 22:43:28 UTC
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To:
forwarded 428617 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448345
thanks

Le mardi 12 juin 2007 à 16:23 -0700, Josh Triplett a écrit :

As this request requires integration between several components (the
screensaver, the session manager and maybe gdm), I have forwarded it
upstream. You can follow its progress there.

Cheers,
#428617#17
Date:
2007-06-17 05:37:04 UTC
From:
To:
Josselin Mouette wrote:

Thanks for forwarding this upstream.

- Josh Triplett
#428617#24
Date:
2010-04-17 11:37:44 UTC
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To:
Wouldn't this approach work?:

set -e
gnome-screensaver &
loop `gnome-screensaver-command -q` until it says it's up and running (or a
	timeout happens)
gnome-screensaver-command -l
exec gnome-session

I'm not sure I'm not missing something, but it appears to me there is
nothing an attacker could do.  There's no keystroke that would allow taking
control; if Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Z work, they would merely stop the script and
abort the session.  Of course, "appears" is not enough when discussing a
security issue, that's why it would be nice if someone more knowledgeable
could chime in.


With Gnome's startup taking longer than all of boot-up before gdm's prompt,
being able to press the "Power" button, go make some tea and return to see a
fully functional system would be a very nifty thing.
#428617#29
Date:
2016-07-03 20:07:39 UTC
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To:
gdm was last released with Debian 6.0 (squeeze) in
February 2011 and removed from Debian sid/unstable in 2011 (see
http://bugs.debian.org/613491 for details on the removal). Since
support for squeeze and squeeze-LTS has now ended, I'm closing all the
remaining bugs reported against this package.


Andreas