[Users] [Bulk] Re: Password before opening CM?

Kevin Chadwick ma1l1ists at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Jun 25 16:06:21 CEST 2014


previously on this list Kevin Chadwick contributed:

> > 
> > I beg your pardon but I can't see where to do that. It's not under
> > Preferences, nor Account preferences.  
> 
> Depends on your system. If it's ubuntu it would likely be
> in /etc/lightdm.conf

Perhaps you should say what threat you are trying to prevent, if it is a
physical attack then start training and keep your laptop on you at all
times. All other measures can be defeated especially alone though you
can create work for an attacker, bios, hdd passwords, disk encryption
thereby removing less sophisticated and patient attackers.

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'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work
together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a
universal interface'

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In Other Words - Don't design like polkit or systemd
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