Bruno wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been searching for the gnome option to set a particular account to
> logon automatically at startup but could not find it on the Graphical
> Environment.
>
> i am wondering if this is a restriction of solaris that would have been made
> for security reasons ?
>
> i could not find the gdmsetup or gdmconfig panels on my fs either.
> what could be the reasons why i dont have gdmsetup ? do i miss a package ?
>
> Does anyone know if dtautologin works both for CDE and Gnome, whichever is
> set as default ?
>
> i tried installing dtautologin without success i must have missed a step (i
> am new to UNIX/LINUX systems, i will be retrying shortly, i get a message for
> the pam.conf file saying that there s a problem with the gdm-autologin
> service, and i get an authentification error at startup. i never typed the
> user's password anywhere).
gdm is included in Solaris 10 and Express (you didn't say which version
you are using) and you should be able to use it to setup the autologin.
Did you do a full install or did you remove packages? My S10 system
has /usr/bin/gdmsetup from the SUNWgnome-display-mgr package.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
