Andrew Ziem wrote:
> Petre Scheie wrote:
>> Andrew Ziem wrote:
>>   
>>> Petre Scheie wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Could you elaborate on how your script works?  I tried it, using your 
>>>> instructions, but 
>>>> the login screen just says "User /usr/bin/autologin.pl| will login in 30 
>>>> seconds" and 
>>>> when the 30 seconds runs out, the X server just restarts.
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> Which version of GDM?  While 2.12 worked fine, there has been a nasty
>>> autologin/timed login bug starting in GDM 2.14.0.  I wrote a patch for
>>> the timed login which I think made it in for GDM 2.16.2.
>>>
>>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340148
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>> Thanks Andrew.  As it turns out, the problem was a typo in my autologin.pl 
>> script. 
>> However, with GDM, the script is run for all client machines, and those that 
>> aren't set 
>> up for autologin just restart the client's X server, which works but is 
>> annoying to look 
>> at.  Do you know if there is any way in GDM  to set the autologin so only 
>> specified 
>> client machines even try to autologin?  With KDM I think this is possible 
>> (haven't tried 
>> it), but the greeter in KDM seems broken since any changes I make to that 
>> don't show up 
>> at the login screen.
>>
>>   
> Hi Peter,
> 
> I basically use the same method described here on the wiki.  The login 
> script checks the hostname, and if it's an undesired hostname, it 
> returns nothing.   When the script returns nothing, GDM should disable 
> the timed/automatic login systems. 
> 
> http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/WorkInProgress#Public_and_private_use_of_the_wo
> 
My script does more or less the same thing, though it's not as elaborate.  At 
the login 
screen I see a line in the greeter that says "User /usr/bin/autologin.pl| will 
login in 
X seconds".  If it's a machine that should autologin, it does so; if it's a 
machine that 
should not autologin, it appears autologin.pl still runs but returns an invalid 
ID, and 
so then the greeter resets and it appears that the X server may be resetting as 
well, 
and then it repeats the process.  What I'd like is for the autologin.pl script 
to not 
even run for those client machines that aren't setup for autologin,  Is this 
possible 
with GDM?

Petre

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