Logins

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Aug 12 12:28:32 UTC 2005


Ted Gervais wrote:
> Before upgrading to FC4 I used to be able to turn on my computer and up would 
> come FC3 with any need to login.  It would sit there at the 'desktop' waiting 
> for me to do something.  But I never had to enter a username and password.
> 
> However, I DO have to do that now with FC4?  Obviously there is a setting 
> somewhere that can fix that but where is it?   

Having to log in is the default; before upgrading you must have 
configured autologin yourself.

See the AutomaticLoginEnable and AutomaticLogin keywords (documented at 
http://yippi.hypermall.com/gdm/gdm-documentation/x241.html) in 
/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf to set it up again.

Paul.




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