On Apr 5, 2005 5:02 PM, Chris Ricker <kaboom@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- Greetz, Antonio Vargas aka winden of network http://wind.codepixel.com/ Las cosas no son lo que parecen, excepto cuando parecen lo que si son.
