Auto Login

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 06:03, crunkrb at bellsouth.net wrote:
> Hi,
>   I have a question that has me somewhat stumped. I have Fedora Core
> loaded on an old system at home that I am just playing around with
> and trying to learn. I had told the desktop switching tool to use
> KDE to be the default desktop at first. I then went to the control
> center-system admin-login and told it to auto log that user in
> and to remember that password, under password less login . After a couple 
> of weeks now I am trying to change this to where you have to log 
> in every time that machine is turned on. Nothing seems to fix this 
> problem. I have been to the desktop switching tool, told Gnome to be 
> the default. Went to the control panel-system admin-login and unchecked the auto log in user and the password less log in options. When you turn the computer on it still insists on going into KDE as that user. Anyone 
> else have a clue on this or had this problem?
> 
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You are mixing apples and oranges

the desktop switching tool allows a 'user' to control which desktop
manager he uses when he logs in (runlevel 5) or starts X (runlevel 3)

Auto login would not be a user preference but rather a system preference
- i.e. supply the user account and password and automatically log in
(and I'm presuming by this, you are referring to runlevel 5).

It would appear that you are trying to make this like Windows and it
ain't Windows. It is truly a multi-user operating system so little
enthusiasm exists to do things that are contrary to the nature of
security on a multi-user system. Inasmuch as any alteration of the
username/password login mechanism extends to remote as well as the local
console, this just would seem to be a very bad idea.

The details are in xdm/gdm/kdm display login managers -- man xdm

Craig