I know there is BeLogin, but I wanted to know if there has been any talk about providing this functionality out of the box knowing it's fully supported and won't potentially break?
...having multiple users probably will have to wait until R2, but it should be possible to implement a login screen for a single user which uses the password from the screensaver preferences.
You should create an enhancement ticket for this on dev.haiku-os.org
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Re: optional login screen (single user authentication)
It was talked about here on this forum earlier this year:
https://www.haiku-os.org/community/forum/haiku_login_screen_concept
https://www.haiku-os.org/community/forum/login_screen_my_final_design
Ryan stated:
...having multiple users probably will have to wait until R2, but it should be possible to implement a login screen for a single user which uses the password from the screensaver preferences.
You should create an enhancement ticket for this on dev.haiku-os.org
Re: optional login screen (single user authentication)
Okay, done: https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8940