Re: [SLE] Passwordless login with GDM

On 2/25/06, Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]

I fired up my 9.1 server for this.
YAST-->Security and Users-->Edit and create users.
Expert Options drop down Menu.
Login settings.
My screen shows KDM login settings and allows for teh auto-login and
passwordless login of a selected user.

Nope, not on my system.
I think those are KDM specific settings. YaST does not seem to
support GDM past the point of configuring GDM as teh Login manager.
YaST has no additional setting for GDM. If you want to configure any
of the GDM settings, you need to edit gdm.conf file or run the gdm
config utility by itlsef. It is not available via YaST.

[...]
[...]
I can get it to work if I use a KDE environement, but I am not. This
is a Freevo box, not KDE or TMW, or whatever. I don't even have KDE
or GNOME installed, only gdm.

I cannot tell you what YAST might have for GDM on that screen.


It has nothing.

[...]

Or that at install time the default might be different. I know that
you can set up SuSE to do an automatic passwordless login during the
point where you set up the users.


Yes, that is when it use KDM as login manager, which is the default.

[...]

Have you looked at /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager?
Look towards the bottom of the files for
DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN=""
and
DISPLAYMANAGER_PASSWORD_LESS_LOGIN="no"

I think that what you need is for the top on to say "freevo" and the
bottom one to say "yes"


I have grepped through all the files in /etc/sysconfig (and I know how
to grep, I have been doing it for a number of years), but none of the
files in that directory (and any subdirectories) contains the words
'login' and 'auto' (any case) on the same line.

Just to make sure I checked my displaymanager file and the settings
that you list are not in mine.
Those setings are KDM specific in 9.3 in any case. Or that is how it seems..

I checked a SUSE 10 box and there it works. They also have the above
settings in the displaymanager file and the display manager is GDM.

Maybe I should just try to upgrade the machine.


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