Dave Miner wrote: > Clay Baenziger wrote: > >> I don't see a custom /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf, but shouldn't the LiveCD >> automatically login as root? Apparently, GDM only supports automatic login >> of non-root users (see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475477). >> Thanks to Brain Cameron for the pointer above. He suggests perhaps >> modifying the pam.conf to allow root to login without a password only >> locally would work okay? >> >> > > Yes, it's supposed to, that's work we haven't done yet. >
We will be able to start a desktop without needing GDM. I have a couple of scripts that can start a GNOME session directly as root. We can have that as a separate SMF service. This will avoid the overhead of starting GDM. Regards, Moinak.
