Re: xdm autologin important for tiny devices



On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:34:00PM +0800, jidanni@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=201855
T> on my openmoko freerunner I modified /etc/pam.d/xdm by replacing
T>
T> @include common-auth
T>
T> with
T>
T> auth required pam_permit.so
T>
T> so that I only need to type the username of the user I want to
T> use. This is not as good as automated login after preconfigured
T> timeout but usable still. (Automatic login without timeout would not
T> be usable in my case since I really want to use different users.)

That is half the way to full automatic login!
Every day for the last 10 years I've had to type in username and
password. Can somebody tell me how to get some relief without having to
switch display managers, for heavens sake.


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Hello:

For automatic login as the same user every time try nodm. From the man page:
"nodm is a minimal display manager that simply logs in as a given user and
starts an X session, without asking for username or password." I use it on a
mobile device with no problems. This package is not in Lenny but it is in
backports. Of course, this violates your requirement of not changing
DM, but xdm seems to have no such feature.

Take Care,
Jaime


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