Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3767 mails)

[Carl Hartung <suselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?

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. ;-)

regards,

Carl