Re: [SLE] auto login in gdm under 9.3



Mike McMullin wrote:
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 07:15 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Monday 27 February 2006 06:05, Mike McMullin wrote:
I thought the pointer to gdmsetup might have been the ticket. I
figured that if the option was available under gdm then this ought to
show up in the setup utility. <sigh> Back to google.
In my 9.3 system, the file /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager contains the
following section:

## Type: string
## Default:
#
# Define the user whom should get logged in without request
#
DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN=""

I'm pretty sure this setting is available through YaST's /etc/sysconfig
editor.

What the OP wants is both autologin and passworless login. Could I
trouble you to check and see if gdmsetup has that as an option?

Mike

Mike, thanks for trying to help. Neither gdmsetup nor
/etc/opt/gnome/gdm/gdm.conf mention anything about "passwordless" login,
only "autologin". Passwordless is a much better term, unless ambiguity
is what's sought.

Here's the whole of gdm.conf (minus the comment lines); maybe there's
some other variable (but why?) necessary to get this to work.

[daemon]
AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=me

TimedLoginEnable=false
TimedLogin=
TimedLoginDelay=30



Greeter=/opt/gnome/bin/gdmgreeter



DefaultPath=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/var/lib/dosemu:/usr/games:/opt/bin:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/opt/kde2/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/opt/cross/bin
RootPath=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/var/lib/dosemu:/usr/games:/opt/bin:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/opt/kde2/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/opt/cross/bin


User=gdm
Group=shadow
LogDir=/var/lib/log/gdm
PidFile=/var/run/gdm.pid
PostLoginScriptDir=/etc/opt/gnome/gdm/PostLogin/
PreSessionScriptDir=/etc/opt/gnome/gdm/PreSession/
PostSessionScriptDir=/etc/opt/gnome/gdm/PostSession/
DisplayInitDir=/etc/opt/gnome/gdm/Init
XKeepsCrashing=/etc/opt/gnome/gdm/XKeepsCrashing
RebootCommand=/sbin/shutdown -r now
HaltCommand=/sbin/shutdown -h now
SuspendCommand=/usr/bin/powersave --suspend-to-disk
ServAuthDir=/var/lib/gdm
BaseXsession=/etc/opt/gnome/gdm/Xsession
SessionDesktopDir=/usr/share/xsessions/:/etc/opt/gnome/dm/Sessions/:/opt/gnome/share/gdm/BuiltInSessions/
UserAuthDir=
UserAuthFBDir=/tmp
UserAuthFile=.Xauthority
StandardXServer=/usr/X11R6/bin/X
Xnest=/usr/X11R6/bin/Xnest -audit 0 -name Xnest




[security]
AllowRoot=true
AllowRemoteRoot=false
AllowRemoteAutoLogin=false
RelaxPermissions=0
CheckDirOwner=true
RetryDelay=1

[xdmcp]
Enable=false
Willing=/etc/X11/xdm/Xwilling

[gui]



[greeter]
Browser=false
MinimalUID=500
Quiver=false
LockPosition=true
BackgroundImage=0
BackgroundColor=#007777
GraphicalTheme=GDM-SuSE
GraphicalThemeDir=/opt/gnome/share/gdm/themes/

[chooser]
HostImageDir=/opt/gnome/share/hosts/
Hosts=
Broadcast=true
Multicast=false

[debug]
Enable=false

[servers]
0=Standard


[server-Standard]
name=Standard server
command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -audit 0
flexible=true

[server-Terminal]
name=Terminal server
command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -audit 0 -terminate
flexible=false
handled=false

[server-Chooser]
name=Chooser server
command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -audit 0
flexible=false
chooser=true






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