On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:13:05AM +0530, Dhananjoy Chowdhury wrote: > May b this will help u. Maybe your keyboard is missing some keys? > edit /etc/passwd .. suppose the username is 'miller' u will c an entry > miller : x : 501 : 501 : : /home/miller : /usr/bash > remove the 'x' from the entry. And all of the spaces, I hope. > Now when u login with username miller it wont ask for password. I don't want to do that even a little bit. But maybe, what the original poster wants to do (set up a convenient always-logged in home system) could be better accomplished by running "gdmsetup" and enabling Automatic Login or Timed Login (or both). -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>