i use KDM to auto-login. i just set the /etc/sysconfig/desktop the same way you did which starts KDM and i'm attaching a link to the kdmrc file which enables auto login. <a href="http://www.groworganic.info/ltsp/etc/X11/xdm/kdmrc.ltsp"> http://www.groworganic.info/ltsp/etc/X11/xdm/kdmrc.ltsp</a> you can use kdiff (or some other diff GUI app) to compare these files and find something you probably missing. i hope it helps. :-) <div>On 12/7/06, Ray Garza <<a href="mailto:ray@mission.lib.tx.us">ray@mission.lib.tx.us</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello all, I'm running K12LTSP 5.0 on my test box and I'm trying to got Autologin to work. I've looked at serveral postings on this but I cannot seem to get it to work. <a href="http://ltsp.org/contrib/autologin_kdm.html"> http://ltsp.org/contrib/autologin_kdm.html</a> <a href="http://www.redhat.com/archives/k12osn/2003-June/msg00401.html">http://www.redhat.com/archives/k12osn/2003-June/msg00401.html</a> Two things that bother me. 1 I edit the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file as in the second link says to but the file is empty. Was it suppose to be empty? I went ahead and entered: DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" DESKTOP="KDE" 2. Changes to the /etc/X11/xdm/kdmrc seem to have no effect. Is the system using the file? So, this leads me to determine which mode the server is using GDM, KDM, XDM and How do I switch from ??? to KDM? Now, I also tried to use GDM to autologin as describe in other posting but the file that they refer to does not exist, gdm.conf. Any ideas? Thanks, Ray _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org"> http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div>