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<pre>On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 10:36 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
><i> On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 10:54 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:
</i>><i> > I am using gconftool to set a number of parameters up automatically...
</i>><i> > However, the one parameter I cannot find is under root
</i>><i> > you should be able to set the "automatic login" on first boot up.
</i>><i> >
</i>><i> > This found under "Applications", "System settings", "Login screen", then
</i>><i> > automatic login.
</i>><i> >
</i>><i> > Can someone point me to that setting?
</i>><i> >
</i>><i> You can't automatically login as root ... as that would be extremely
</i>><i> unsafe and a very, Very, VERY bad thing to do :)
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>In fact, it is my opinion (I know, but I thought I would share my
>opinion in this case) that one should never even login to the GUI screen
>as root at all. But that is enabled by default upstream (so it is not
>changed in CentOS) and you can login as root to gnome or KDE if you
>want ... it is disabled on all my machines so that root can not login to
>the GUI.
John,
Sorry for the missunderstanding... I am not trying to have root auto login.
I am trying to auto login a differnet user.
I was just pointing out that root had to set that setting up. The user cannot do that...
Sorry for the confusion.
Jerry
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