On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:

Hi all,

I was wondering if someone knows how to "automatically" login as root with gdm and gnome.

I have been doing some searching, and havent been able to find a method. I dont want to login automatically all the time - its just part of install setup.

1. kickstart install
2. post section do somethings
3. setup so on reboot auto login as root
4. complete installing some things and REMOVE the auto root login.

If you're doing it via kickstart (which is what I have), you can try something like this in the kickstart post sections: %post useradd -p '$1$aqFmf2PA$VVacErRFawntEp9asdasasdasd' kwan sed -i -e "s/^(AutomaticLoginEnable=).*$/\1true/" /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf sed -i -e "s/^(AutomaticLogin=).*$/\1kwan/" /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf

All that does is add the AutomaticLogin to gdm.. Not sure if it works for root thogh.

This is what I am looking at trying to do. I have it all working except the auto root login.

I have looked at gdmsetup on centos 5.3 x86_64 and dont see a setup for it. I have setup gdm to auto login as a regular user but that doesnt work for me.

How does one setup gdm to login as root automatically?

Thanks,

Jerry _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos