Re: gdm submission
- From: Sam Vilain <sam hydro gen nz>
- To: "Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>
- Cc: "'Todd Graham Lewis'" <tlewis mindspring net>, Ian McKellar <yakk yakk net au>, "'gnome-list gnome org'" <gnome-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: gdm submission
- Date: 03 Mar 1999 08:53:15 +1300
"Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox@mail.bhi-erc.com> writes:
> Ctrl-Alt-Del for login was/is always a bad idea. In all operating systems
> BUT winblowz (Or should that be OT old technology) ctrl alt delete reboots
> the computer. This is an expected thing. If you hit ctrl alt del and it does
> something different it confuses people. Microsoft in the different windows
> changed what control alt delete does 3 different times. Lets not get into
> that habbit. Why would any one want to hit control alt delete to login when
> you can just be prompted by a nice pritty login box right away?
The idea is that during the login session Ctrl-Alt-Delete will ALWAYS
pop up a Windows NT Security dialogue, and outside of login sessions
Ctrl-Alt-Delete will ALWAYS popup a login prompt. This avoids the
possibility of a user setting up a trojan login prompt.
I can see the logic, but ctrl-alt-delete is perhaps a bad choice :-)
<blatant-anti-ms>It's probably something to do with users being so
familiar to using the keypress.</blatant-anti-ms>
But then, what key sequence DO you use? And how do you ensure that
the X server doesn't remap it during the session?
--
Sam Vilain, sam@whoever.com work: sam.vilain@unisys.com
http://www.hydro.gen.nz home: sam@hydro.gen.nz
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