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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051212/3fa44ed0/attachment-0005.sig>