Re: 2 questions...

[Sebastien Estienne <sebastien estienne gmail com>]

2005/7/26, Colin Walters <walters verbum org>:
> On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 03:05 +0200, Sebastien ESTIENNE wrote:
> > D
> > I also need it for other reasons than kerberos:
> > - i can't acces my samba shares until i log in, using my laptops as
> > mobile file server, sometimes i expect to just power it on and be able
> > to acces my files.
> > - the same for apache (holding my wiki) and hula holding my
> > contacts/planning
> 
> There's two answers.  First, we could say his is the same as the server
> use case, regardless of the fact that you're running the servers on a
> laptop.
> 
> The second answer is, what if we changed the OS so that when your laptop
> boots up, gdm would detect that there was only one user on the system,
> and would just start logging you in, but with the screensaver already
> locked.  That way everything in your user session (including nm-applet)
> would run, and your servers would have network connectivity.
That's a good solution, anyway i think merging gdm and the screensaver
functionnality is a good move for other things like fast user
switching

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