Re: [SLE] Passwordless login with GDM

On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 14:08 +0200, Andre Truter wrote:

On 2/25/06, Mike McMullin wrote:

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Well there are ac couple of places that you could have looked. I suggest that you fire up YAST choose the Security and Users Tab, and select User Management. Look under Expert Options. Somewhere under there you will find the options to auto-login a user and to passwordless-login a user.

I have looked in YaST under Users. There are no autologin settings anywhere at any of the tools available in the 'Security and Users' Tab.

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.

I also grepped through all the files under /etc/sysconfig for autologin and found nothing.

The machine is running SUSE 9.3

If you happen to be using KDE as your gui,

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then try it's Control Center, System Administration, and look for Login Manager, and the Convenience tab, you'll need your root password to make changes.

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.

I do not use a Window manager or Desktop environment. When the user logs in (and only one user) the X server is started. Once the X server is up, Freevo is started. The machine should not have a keyboard or mouse, it only has a remote control unit (Like a TV or VCR has)

The intention is to set up the machine as a utility. You boot the machine and after a while Freevo appears on your TV. The user should not even be aware that it is actaully a computer running Linux. To the user it should be a very nifty VCR/DVD Player/music player.

I have everything working, except that when X starts up, it asks for the password.

It seems that SUSE have some additional stuff or a custom gdm that asks for the password, because the Ubuntu version of gdm does not do that.

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.

I don't want to use KDM, as I don't want to install the KDE framwork also. Freevo already require a basic GNOME framwork (Not the full desktop, just a number of libraries and utilites). So, adding GDM is just one additional package.

Freevo has a nice way of doing it witout any login managers at all. They use mingetty with the --autologin option. This will login a user at runlevel 3 into a tty. Then you just set startx in the user's bashrc file and as soon as the user logs in, it starts X and then Freevo. This is nice a lean, but unfortunately SUSE's mingetty does not support the autologin option. (I think most modern distro's have disabled that due to security reasons)

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"