On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 09:26 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Emmet Hikory wrote: > > I "really, really" wanted to do it to ease working with tools that > > request graphical sudo authentication for devices that didn't have > > keyboards. Yes, this is pointlessly insecure, and yes, there are input > > tools that can be used in some cases, but these tend to be fairly > > cumbersome. > > I can only see the point of this to some extend for some embedded > devices. [..] > and possibly that passwordless use of sudo would be allowed. > But I also would expect the actual user ID still to be protected with > a password, especially as a lot of these devices will have networking > and thus do need fairly strong protection for external access.
Yep. I am not sure that all network services in Debian have a "null password not ok" policy, à la pam_unix. (remember Win2K? ) BTW, Gnome's gdm allows autologon. Also something like "pam_succeed_if uid=1000" or equivalent may achieve the expected behaviour. Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
