Brbotalnik wrote:
On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 21:46:48 +0100, Joseph Toman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Brbotalnik wrote:
I have no ideas what to do to make the autologin work with GDM. I've
used the autologin.sh script that was posted on this mailing list,
but the gdm just ignores it. Whit KDM I've successfully
auto-logined into the desktop environment, but GDM just won't obey.
I'm running Gentoo on amd64.
I had a lot of problems with this until I realized that :
1) There are a couple different places in gdm.conf that need to be
enabled for autologin to work. The obvious
place at the top of the file, and another place under the Security
heading.
2) The names that the LTSP clients report to GDM have nothing to do
with the actual host name of the machine. They all are of the form
"ws001.ltsp", even though running hostname on the client machine
reports the correct name. I think this is in one of the LTSP bash
scripts, but since I got it working I didn't want to mess with it.
Now that I have it working, I want to get rid of it. I'm in a
library/kiosk terminal situation, and it seems like a real
waste of resources to autologin, but then autologout in case the
patron just walked away with their credit card number in a cache
somewhere in the browser (I rebuild the home directory each time). So
our machines sit there and cycle through the login process. Ugh.
Does anyone know a way to remotely login or logout a kiosk machine
with GDM? It would be great if the librarians
could just start a session on one of the kiosk machines without
having to hand out passwords or walk over to the
machine to start the session.
J. Toman
J. Toman, can you please be more specific with gdm.conf configuration
for autologin that worked for you? I would really appreciate it.
When I was browsing through archive of this mailing list I found some
posts about pam authentication modules to make autologin work with gdm.
But it was quite an old post. So, has pam anything to do with gdm
autologin?
At the top of gdm.conf in the [deamon] section there are
AutomaticLoginEnable AutomaticLogin TimedLoginEnable TimedLogin and
TimedLoginDelay entries. The *login entries are either a username or
the path to an executable with a pipe appended to the end.
In the [security] section there is an AllowRemoteAutoLogin entry which
needs to be set as well. This is documented better in the GDM
Administrators guide.
J. Toman
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