[ale] Auto Login

[Geoffrey]

Fulton Green wrote:
> GDM can be set up nowadays to autologin a specified account (though that may
> require an upgrade to GNOME 2, which will be in RH 8.0 next week). And I
> think Mozilla can now run in full-screen mode if so desired.

Actually it's available in GNOME 1.4, here's an excerpt from 
/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf

[daemon]
AutomaticLoginEnable=false
AutomaticLogin=

I've not used it but it appears pretty straight forward.

> 
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:32:48PM -0400, H. Bieber wrote:
> 
>>Can someone tell me how to setup a Linux box that auto logs in? We are
>>creating a stand alone web browsing PC that wil be running RH 7.3, and
>>Mozilla in Kiosk mode. We want a generic user with no rights to get auto
>>logged in when the machine is booted. It would be even better if we
>>could auto login and launch a program (mozilla).
> 
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I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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