Autologin-Button in LDM Greeter

[Brunni]

This is for the Wish-List:

When you activate the Auto-Login Feature in LDM (using Francis's Patch https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ltsp/+bug/161794)
you can't log out. If you log out, you are automatically logged in again. So you can't login using your own username.

So it would be nice, if there was an "Default-Login Button" - Feature:
The Greeter is started and there is a Button, with customizable caption, e.g. "If you don't have your own account yet, click on this button"
Then the Greeter logs in using some default username and password from lts.conf.
The "normal" login with username and password is still possible.

The Advantages:
- You can shut down the workstations tidily (with normal-autologin, you can't log out and you can't shutdown)
- Idle thin-clients use about 60 MB of Server-RAM, although they are not used. Log them out and the memory can be used by someone else.
- You don't have to pass Usernames and Passwords to Guests, (like username workstation1, pwd work1). This username could be also used at another workstation what would make the first workstation unusable (for Guests).
- Idle workstation, that are logged out, can be shutdown after 60 minutes for power saving. (Needs changes in chroot, I don't know how this could work.)

While not implemented yet:
Write the username and password on the ThinClient, so the users have to typewrite it for logging in. :)

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

this is already available in hardy as so called "guest button".
adding LDM_USERNAME, LDM_PASSWORD and LDM_ALLOW_GUEST=True to lts.conf
puts a "log in as guest" button below the input field.
if that doesnt suffice feel free to reopen the bug.

[tonyc² (keysoftav)]

Can you explain how i can creat the "log in as guest" button and where !?

Thanks.

[tonyc² (keysoftav)]

Nobody ?

Please...