[K12OSN] Autologin with gdm doesn't login on Fedora

[Moody Ahmad]

Got the autologin to work on timed delay. The secret was that
there is another parameter that needs to be set in gdm.conf.
Under "security" there is a  parameter called:
AllowRemoteAutoLogin. This needs to be set to true.
Once I did this and restarted gdm with gdm-restart, it worked like a champ.

Moody

Moody Ahmad wrote:

>
> Has anybody gotten gdm autologin to work work on Fedora 1?
>
> I enabled the autologin in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf and setup
> a script to return a login name from the DISPLAY value.
> However, no autologin happens. I have restarted gdm
> a number of times. I have verified that the script to
> generate the login name is being called and it is returning
> the right login name. There is no failure message in
> /var/log/messages. But the automatic login doesn't
> happen. I tried changing the /etc/pam.d/gdm-autologin
> parameter for passwd to optional rather than required.
> But still no autologin. The logins do have passwords on
> them. Do I need to remove passwords from the logins?
>
> Any thought or pointers to what to look at would
> be appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Moody
> Brewer Public Library
> Richland Center, WI.
>
>
>
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