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. John, I realize I can change the setting there using the mouse to select the applications, system setting login screen, etc... (i am also using 4.2) - however, I wish to do this with gconftool on the command line. When I setup a machine I do not want to take the time to set it up using the mouse. just run a quick command that uses gconftool to do it along with other things.... Jerry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051212/ea4a135e/attachment-0005.html>