Re: gdm minor security issue...

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows brown edu>]

On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 12:04:32AM +0100, Martin Kasper Petersen was heard to say:
> gdm will install with gdmlogin as default from now on. The old and
> more featureful gdmgreeter will be provided for environments where
> usernames can be exposed.

  This sounds a little extreme to me.  I don't think this will be extremely
important for most people (home users) and if people setting up systems that
are supposed to be high security accept default configurations for everything,
they probably have more issues than user names possibly appearing.

  As usual, however, there is a distinct chance that everything I have said is
utter nonsense. ;-)

  Daniel

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