GDM auto-login

[William Jon McCann]

Hi,

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Clyde E. Kunkel
<clydekunkel7734 at cox.net> wrote:
> Dejan Čabrilo wrote:
>
> > Since there is no gdmsetup in rawhide, what's the alternative to
> > allowing autologin of a user?
> >
> > P.S. I'm sorry if this question was already answered, I couldn't find
> > it.
> > P.P.S. When do we expect a replacement for gdmsetup?
> >
> >
>
>  as root, edit /etc/gdm/gdm-schemas
>  and make your changes in this section:
>
>  <schema>
>       <key>daemon/TimedLoginEnable</key>
>       <signature>b</signature>
>       <default>true</default>         <====change to true
>     </schema>
>     <schema>
>       <key>daemon/TimedLogin</key>
>       <signature>s</signature>
>       <default>yourusername</default> <====your user name
>     </schema>
>     <schema>
>       <key>daemon/TimedLoginDelay</key>
>       <signature>i</signature>
>       <default>10</default>      <===how long you want to wait (seconds)
>     </schema>
>
>  There is a web page somewhere with more information.  try googling gdmsetup

You don't want to do it that way.  These schemas are used by the
program to interpret the values stored in /etc/gdm/custom.conf.
You'll want to put your changes into custom.conf.

Something like:
[daemon]
TimedLoginEnable=true
TimedLogin=you

A bit more information here:
http://live.gnome.org/GDM/2.22/Configuration

Jon