Authentication default

[YigalB]

Paul

Thanks a lot! That solved my problem. I can now login.

What about the 2nd issue now? Can I autologin when boot to a selected
non-root account? 

Yigal

>-----Original Message-----
>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-
>bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Paul Howarth
>Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 11:40 AM
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>Subject: Re: Authentication default
>
>YigalB wrote:
>> I am a newbie.. so I don't know "what I want to use" - I don't need
any
>> kind of security at all. I just want to be able to logon to other
>> accounts... not only root..
>> When I installed the PC I don't recall any Q regarding the
>> authentication - and if there was - I probably said "don't care" - ad
it
>> worked fine until I made the mistake and touched that tab (while
trying
>> to solve other problem)
>
>OK, in authconfig, leave all of the "user information" fields blank and
>select
>"Use MD5 passwords" and "Use shadow passwords" (and nothing else) for
>authentication.
>
>Make sure that the accounts you are trying to log in to have entries in
>/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.
>
>What is the symptom you get when trying to log in as other accounts?
Does
>it
>say "bad password" or something similar, or does it appear to log in
and
>then
>log out again immediately?
>
>> I even would love to know how to make the PC boot automatically into
an
>> account I set (not root) without asking me for user name and
password..
>
>Let's make sure that the other account works first.
>
>Paul.
>
>
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