Task #463
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Feature #111: Replace GDM session menu with a Gtk application
Consider NoDM for autologin
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Description
Once the GDM greeter has been replaced with a more standard application, we don't need a display manager that can authenticate users. The project NoDM, developed for smartphones, does autologin without any extra feature:
http://www.enricozini.org/sw/nodm/
It seems then to be the tool we need and it is already managed by Debian Live. However, if users want a real install on disk, maybe restoring a GDM display manager would be better, depends on whether there is one or several users in the end. This ticket results from discussions on the Live list:
Updated by Jean-Michel Philippe almost 13 years ago
It is also possible to write our own greeter based on LightDM:
http://www.mattfischer.com/blog/?p=5
However this would not remove the trick of fake users.
Updated by Jean-Michel Philippe almost 13 years ago
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04/30/2012) - Target version changed from 2012-05 to 2012-11
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03/05/2012)
Updated by Jean-Michel Philippe over 12 years ago
- Target version changed from 2012-11 to 2013-02