About early gdm logon

[Antonio Vargas]

On Apr 5, 2005 5:02 PM, Chris Ricker <kaboom at oobleck.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Ray Strode wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > > Just noticed that the new gdm in rawhide allows early logon before the
> > > entire system is up. But as I read about it in the init script does not
> > > actually allow users to logon until the entire system is up. My question
> > > is what is the purpose of this if you can't logon when the screen
> > > appears?
> > There are a number of advantages to starting gdm early.
> >
> > 1) no rhgb means we don't have to start two X servers during the boot
> > up process.  This means faster bootup, less badness on bad hardware,
> > etc...

Is rhgb the one that show's a progress bar while starting services?

> > 2) The user can potentially login sooner if we only limit login until
> > the services that the user absolutely needs are started.

And then we need an easy way to specify which services are needed and they
will depend on the environment (ie: nfs homes will need network + nfs
mounts for example)

> > 3) The system feels like it boots faster if the user sees a login screen
> > early.
> >
> > 4) The user can type their username and password as soon as a login
> > screen appears, then walk away--get coffee whatever--and come back with
> > it all logged in.

Yeah great security unless the desktop stays locked by default ;)

> > Note, even if we say "the services that the user absolutely needs" in 2)
> > above is "all services that we're going to start", it still has the
> > other mentioned advantages.
> >
> > We still need to make some changes in lower-levels of the distro before
> > dm early-login mode will work.  You can track progress here if you're
> > interested:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151952
> 
> FWIW, Sun made a similar change for Solaris 10. It may be worth looking at
> what was done there just for comparison. (though preferably without
> drinking the XML kool-aid! :-)
> 
> later,
> chris
> 
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