Re: Timed and automatic login not longer automatic

Jim Cornette wrote:

Eric Brunson wrote:

Jim Cornette wrote:

I doubt this is intentional. It is a gnome program, so they might be protecting us from our own desires. I've never attended a gnome sermon, but it sure must be enlightening.

The changelog for gdm in development doe not state intentional breakage via the gnome think tank. It only references early-login improvements.

Try removing rhgb from the kernel parameter ling in grub and add early-login instead.

 rpm -q --changelog gdm |grep auto
- Make early-login work with timed and automatic logins
- automake14 really needed, not automake
- fix build with current auto*
- put gdm-autologin pam config file in file list, hope
- automatic rebuild

Jim

Thank you, Jim, for being a voice of reason. I should give the benefit of the doubt before getting that annoyed.

I disabled rhgb and added early-login, that by itself didn't get past the password requirement. Aren't there init scripts that early-login requires? I'm having yum search for anything with "early" in it, but no dice so far, I'll do some googling to make sure I'm not overlooking something before filing a bugzilla.

I guess the change related to early-login does not track with the password required problem.

Below are a few links related to early-login and what it is supposed to accomplish.

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/27/182232
Which has a link to this thread.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-April/msg00416.html

The link shows a lot of scripts and the concept. Basically it is regarding getting the GUI up before it is completely ready for usage. Also, it relates to loading several processes at the same time instead of process to process loading.

I use early-login but do not notice much difference. (Running development from an FC5 upgraded system.

I searched with google with 'early-login and gdm' as a search term.

It would be wise to search bugzilla for the password bug. It is bound to be filed.

The only security related problem that I see with gdm and auto-login is if you allow X logins remotely using gdm. A person could log in without the need for a password right into your account. I used auto-login for awhile and then reverted to user and password entry.

Do you allow remote logins?