Suppressing logins

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

We installed SuSE 7.3 on Pamela's system, but if Red Hat and Mandrake have it, I'm sure that 
SuSE has it. Time to RTFM.
On 3 Dec 2001 at 13:36, Glenn Burkhardt wrote:

> > At the installfest, Pamela King wanted to know if there was a way to suppress the need for a login. 
> > (I know that I can write a replacement for login and getty) I don't know of a simple way to configure 
> > a Linux system not to require a login. I know that Pamela and many other Windows and Mac 
> > people don't understand what a login is, and the concept of a priviledged user vs. a regular user. 
> 
> There's a standard way to do it on Mandrake systems.  There's an autologin
> feature.  It works on RedHat 7.0 as well, but I don't know if it's a 
> standard feature.
> 
> When X comes up, it starts the desktop for the "default user", without a 
> login screen, instead of running 'xdm' (or 'kdm', or 'gdm'...).
> 
> It can be configured after the fact in the Mandrake control center, under
> boot config.  
> 
> We use this feature in our product, so the machine just comes up with the 
> default application running.
> 
> Check out http://www.linux-easy.com/development/autologin
> 

Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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