On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 10:36 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
/ On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 10:54 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:
/>/ > I am using gconftool to set a number of parameters up automatically... />/ > However, the one parameter I cannot find is under root />/ > you should be able to set the "automatic login" on first boot up. />/ > />/ > This found under "Applications", "System settings", "Login screen", then />/ > automatic login. />/ > />/ > Can someone point me to that setting? />/ > />/ You can't automatically login as root ... as that would be extremely />/ unsafe and a very, Very, VERY bad thing to do :) />/ _______________________________________________ /
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
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 11:44 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 10:36 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 10:54 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:
I am using gconftool to set a number of parameters up automatically... However, the one parameter I cannot find is under root you should be able to set the "automatic login" on first boot up.
This found under "Applications", "System settings", "Login screen", then automatic login.
Can someone point me to that setting?
You can't automatically login as root ... as that would be extremely unsafe and a very, Very, VERY bad thing to do :) _______________________________________________
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.
AH ... much better :)
If you open what you said ...
"Applications" -> "System settings" -> "Login screen"
then on there is a "Automatic Login" section under the "General Tab" ... at least for CentOS 4.
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