On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Jerry Geis <geisj at 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 at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >