linux not showing password login

[Patrick Xu]

On Wednesday 14 July 2004 08:52, Pete Nesbitt wrote:
>On July 13, 2004 05:37 am, Michelangelo Calatino wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>>  How can I set up my system so that it asks for a user or root passwd
>> before starting or at KDE startup ?
>> Now it directly starts with the only user account present.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> MiC
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>- ------------------------------------ ing. Michelangelo Calatino
>>
>>
>> If only God would give me some clear sign !
>> Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
>>
>> Woody Allen, 1935-
>
>It sound's like somehow the system has been set to iuse 'auto login'. That
>means at boot it will go to the graphical login (for kde or gnome or...) and
>then automaticly log in as a particular user.
>
>There is a way to change it in KDE, but I'm not sure the exact process, so
> you can edit the file "/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf"
>
>Look for the "Timed login" section. Here is what mine looks like (the first
>entry being the important one)
>
>TimedLoginEnable=false
>TimedLogin=
>TimedLoginDelay=30
>
>Once set to false, on boot, yiou should be presented with a graphical login
>that waits indefinately for valid userid & password.
>--
>Pete Nesbitt, rhce

The graphical setup tool is 

gdmsetup

Have a try...