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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051212/e2e0e365/attachment-0005.html>