per seat hardware and login managers

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Tue Mar 20 09:31:32 PDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 12:27 +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:25:15AM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > So what is the problem with doing this? Why was it not done years
> ago -
> > is there some subtlety I'm missing?

IIRC accessible login wasn't working that well until recently or no-one
bothered to enable it in Fedora.

> Don't.
> 
> You should not grant too much rights to just a system user.

True. The principle of least privilege.

> Or do you expect Sound at the GDM login prompt?

Yes, for accessible login (the Orca screen reader) which we just enabled
by default in Fedora.

      David




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