Re: [SLE] auto login in gdm under 9.3

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 10:33 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 09:14, ken wrote:

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.
<snip>

Hi Ken,

I also posted this:

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


It would be nice to know if you've even looked at this and tried putting your
user name?

If I had gdm installed on any of my machines I would. I opt for kdm,
and I know how easy it is using KDE's control center to setup automatic
logins.

Seems to me this is SUSE's way of making sure every conceivable combination of
window manager and desktop environment follows the same login procedure:
either autologin or require a password. What this implies is the above file
is evaluated /first/... before either gdm or kdm, ergo you're probably
wasting your time looking for the settings there. ;-)

I didn't know that about the displaymanager file. Thanks for telling
me.


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