[Bug 14038] [enhancement] auto-completion in gdm field login

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seb128 at ubuntu.com changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UPSTREAM                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |NOTABUG




------- Additional Comments From seb128 at ubuntu.com  2005-09-21 08:21 UTC -------
Upstream comment:

"This sort of feature would compromise security.  It is not a good idea to make
it easy for anyone to see what users are available on the system.  It might be
okay if such a feature were non-default (like the Face Browser).

This sort of feature would also work poorly on systems with NIS users are loaded
over the network.  On systems with thousands of users, it would take  GDM too
long to pull a complete list of user information over the network.  It probably
would even be too slow if there are hundreds of users.  The Face Browser works
around this by asking the user to configure the specific list of users who are
visible in the Face Browser.  I guess autocomplete could work so it supports
the same userlist that the Face Browser supports.

This feature doesn't seem that useful to me.  The login screen isn't really
the right place to have a "user search" feature on a system."


I agree with him that completion on the login is not that useful, closing it as
NOTABUG. Feel free to reopen if you disagree

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