Auto Login

[Scott Talbot]

On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 23:14, Leonid Mamtchenkov wrote:
> * Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> [11-Jan-2004 09:49]:
> > > The fact that Linux supports multi-user environments internally does not
> > > mean that single-user mode is unnatural.  And, again, the fact that
> > > someone wants to have autologin in GUI does not mean that the system is
> > > completely open.  It's just a publicly available GUI - nothing more,
> > > nothing less. :)
> > great - so tell him how to accomplish it
> 
> I do remember an autologin.rpm floating around which was done by
> bero at redhat.com .  I used to run it on few of my RedHat boxes, but not
> anymore. RPMfind.net shows up with Mandrake version of it:
> http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=autologin&submit=Search+...
> 
	No need to go through all of that.  Assuming you're using Gnome Just go
to the System Settings menu and select Login Screen.  In the Window that
appears find the area that says Automatic Login and check the
automatically login this user and select the user in the drop-down list.

Scott