On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:32 +0200, Roey Dror wrote:
AFAIK the automatic login feature allows you to nominate a user to
automatically log in as... it doesn't ask for the password but I think
one can be set (so it doesn't need to be empty).
As I said, the automatic login feature is not what
AFAIK the automatic login feature allows you to nominate a user to
automatically log in as... it doesn't ask for the password but I think
one can be set (so it doesn't need to be empty).
As I said, the automatic login feature is not what I'm looking for.
I need to set up more than one user
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:02 +0200, Roey Dror wrote:
I've searched around the internet for a way to allow a user to login
into GDM without using a password.
I know that GDM has an automatic login feature, but that's not what I'm
looking.
I really do not wish to create a user with an empty
I've searched around the internet for a way to allow a user to login
into GDM without using a password.
I know that GDM has an automatic login feature, but that's not what I'm looking.
I really do not wish to create a user with an empty password, in order
not to compromise the entire system
OK the pam stuff that is talked about online is found in /etc/pam.d/gdm.
I have seen a few suggestions to change the auth to optional instead of
required. However there would be nothing to stop some one logging in as
root through gdm.
Is there any other pam module which can supply a
Is there any other pam module which can supply a passwordless login?
maybe pam_guest?
I figured it out. Adding this line:
authsufficient pam_guest.soguests=username nopass
to /etc/pam.d/gdm
did the trick.
--
Roey
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