Bug#201855: xdm autologin important for tiny devices

2010-06-01 Thread jidanni
T on my openmoko freerunner I modified /etc/pam.d/xdm by replacing T T @include common-auth T T with T T authrequiredpam_permit.so T T so that I only need to type the username of the user I want to T use. This is not as good as automated login after preconfigured T timeout but

Bug#201855: xdm autologin important for tiny devices

2010-06-01 Thread Brice Goglin
Le 01/06/2010 08:31, jida...@jidanni.org a écrit : Every day for the last 10 years I've had to type in username and password. Can somebody tell me how to get some relief without having to switch display managers, for heavens sake You've been complaining about all this for 7 years. It would

Bug#201855: xdm autologin important for tiny devices

2010-06-01 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
jida...@jidanni.org writes: That is half the way to full automatic login! Every day for the last 10 years I've had to type in username and password. Can somebody tell me how to get some relief without having to switch display managers, for heavens sake. Heh, afaik it is just not possible with

Bug#201855: xdm autologin important for tiny devices

2010-06-01 Thread jidanni
JDC == Jaime Di Cristina jaime...@gmail.com writes: JDC For automatic login as the same user every time try nodm. Works perfectly! Ah, sure wish it was hinted to on the xdm man page! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#201855: xdm autologin important for tiny devices

2009-01-14 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hi, on my openmoko freerunner I modified /etc/pam.d/xdm by replacing @include common-auth with authrequiredpam_permit.so so that I only need to type the username of the user I want to use. This is not as good as automated login after preconfigured timeout but usable still.

Bug#201855: xdm autologin important for tiny devices

2008-11-04 Thread jidanni
Now years later people might be looking at the possibility of using xdm in all kinds of devices, e.g., Openmoko telephones. Some of these devices may not even have a keyboard available to type in one's username and password until after one can spawn a keyboard emulator program, but one needs to