Bug#428617: gdm: Autologin with screen locked

[Josh Triplett]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.18.2-1
Severity: wishlist

My laptop has only one user: myself.  Autologin would improve convenience, but
I want the security of requiring a password.  If gdm had an option to pre-fill
the login name and just prompt for a password, that would save some time.
However, it would save even more time to autologin but lock the screen before
starting any programs.  This would allow GNOME to load while I type in my
password; it would also mean that if I started up the system and walked away,
it would have GNOME fully loaded when I came back, rather than just waiting
for me to log in.

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-rc1 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                    3.102         Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]      1.5.13        Debian configuration management sy
ii  gksu                       2.0.0-4       graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session              2.18.2-1      The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal 2.18.0-2      The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  libart-2.0-2               2.3.19-3      Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.18.0-2      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1                   1:2.4.32-1.1  Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                      2.5-10        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.4.6-1.1     The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.1.0-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.73-2        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdmx1                    1:1.0.2-2     X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii  libfontconfig1             2.4.2-1.2     generic font configuration library
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.0-4     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.12.12-1     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0          2.14.0-3      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.10.12-2     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpam-modules             0.79-4        Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime             0.79-4        Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                   0.79-4        Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.16.4-1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                   1.10-3        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2                 2.16.1-2      SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  librsvg2-common            2.16.1-2      SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1                2.0.15-2      SELinux shared libraries
ii  libwrap0                   7.6.dbs-13    Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.1.1-1     X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                    1:1.0.3-2     X11 authorisation library
ii  libxcursor1                1:1.1.8-2     X cursor management library
ii  libxdmcp6                  1:1.0.2-2     X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6                   1:1.0.3-2     X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3                 1:4.0.3-2     X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                     1:1.0.1-4     X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1               1:1.0.2-1     X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                    2.6.28.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2                 2:1.2.1-1     X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1                1:0.9.2-1     X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  lsb-base                   3.1-23.1      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  metacity [x-window-manager 1:2.18.3-1    A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  rxvt-unicode [x-terminal-e 7.9-2         RXVT-like terminal emulator with U
ii  xbase-clients              1:7.2.ds2-2   miscellaneous X clients
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator 225-1         X terminal emulator

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii  gdm-themes                    0.5.1      Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii  whiptail                      0.52.2-10  Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  zenity                        2.18.2-1   Display graphical dialog boxes fro

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm