Re: Timed and automatic login not longer automatic

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wwp wrote:
> Hello Stanton,
>
>
> On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 23:19:47 -0600 Stanton Finley
<stanfinley@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> With a complete yum update today on both my i386 and X86_64 FC5 PCs I am
>> now required to enter my user password in a GUI box with timed log in
>> (which I never had to do before). Automatic log in requires a password
>> as well. This seems to be new behavior. What's up?
    Looks like they've added a new feature to gdm-2.14.8-1. I suppose
it is more secure this way,
>
> Two months ago I've set up gdm to automatically login w/ a specific
user, but
> this never worked. Would that be related?
This should have worked!  Did you add the user first? (users tab).
you can do it manually by editing
the /etc/gdm/custom.conf adding:
AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=<your user name>

under the [daemon] heading

and
Include=<your user name>
under the [greeter] heading

HTH

Scott
>
>
> Regards,
>

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