Re: [SLE] Passwordless login seems not to work

On Sunday 20 November 2005 9:23 am, Jerry Feldman wrote:

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:49:54 -0500 "Paul W. Abrahams" wrote:

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I am puzzled by the relation between the sysconfig variable DISPLAYMANAGER_PASSWORD_LESS_LOGIN and the KDE Convenience setting. I

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want password-less login for one user, but DISPLAYMANAGER_PASSWORD_LESS_LOGIN, according to its description, causes password-less login for all users. Two hands on the same knob, it seems, with different effects. How is the conflict supposed to be resolved?

And in addition, the variable DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN is set to a different user than the KDE automatic login. The KDE one seems to win.

Until you posted this I was unaware of the KDE convenience tab. The one difference I found it that the YaST variables refer to all the display managers where the KDE settings refer only to kdm. The convenience panel sets its parameters in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc NoPassEnable=true NoPassUsers=<comma separated names of the no password users>

Hmmm. I did a "locate" and discovered these copies of kdmrc: pwa@suillus:/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm> locate kdmrc /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc.SuSEconfig /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc /opt/kde3/share/config/SuSE/default/kdmrc So which one actually controls the behavior? Also, if I set DISPLAYMANAGER_PASSWORDLESS_LOGIN to true in Yast, will that enable passwordless logins for all users in kdm? On my system I have DISPLAYMANAGER_PASSWORD_LOGIN set to false and (via the KDE convenience tab): NoPassEnable=true NoPassUsers=pwa but user pwa still has to provide a password. The settings of NoPassEnable and NoPassUsers show up in the copy in /etc/opt/kde3 but not in the copy in /opt/kde3. The former of these has lots of comments; the latter has no comments at all. Looks like some crossed signals here. Paul

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