http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php?title=En:HOWTO:_Setting_Up_Autologin&feed=atom&action=historyEn:HOWTO: Setting Up Autologin - Revision history2013-05-21T23:27:13ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.19.4http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php?title=En:HOWTO:_Setting_Up_Autologin&diff=8756&oldid=prevFitzcarraldo: Added item about removing sabayon-mce from system runlevels (still reported as a problem in SL 5.4 and good to mention anyway. Also tidied some text up.2010-10-06T12:17:00Z<p>Added item about removing sabayon-mce from system runlevels (still reported as a problem in SL 5.4 and good to mention anyway. Also tidied some text up.</p>
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{{Warning|<center>'''Never''' ever enable Autologin for root!</center>}}<br />
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This Howto will help you setting up your Autologin, so that you will need no more to authenticate in a login prompt.<br><br />
Be aware that this is a security risk, since anyone will be able to get access to your computer with no need of any password or authorization, this is intended just for home computers.<br />
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= Setting Up Autologin in KDE4 =<br />
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Some users reported the inability to set up the Autologin from within the KDE Control Center, they reported the page to be grayed out, with the message:<br><br />
"There is no login dialog in themed mode"<br><br />
If it is not your case, then setting the Autologin with the Control Center is the recommended way, otherwise proceed with the Howto.<br />
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'''1.''' Become root with the ''su'' command in your favourite console application, for example "Konsole".<br />
{{Console| <pre class="clear">su</pre>}}<br />
Type in your root password.<br />
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'''2.''' Make sure that the Sabayon Media Centre init script is not in a system runlevel:<br />
{{Console| <pre class="clear">rc-update del sabayon-mce boot<br />
rc-update del sabayon-mce default</pre>}}<br />
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'''3.''' Open up the ''kdmrc'' file with your favourite editor, we will use ''kwrite'' in this example.<br><br />
The ''kdmrc'' file is usually located in: ''/usr/kde/4.2/share/config/kdm/kdmrc''<br><br />
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If it is not there, try to find it with the locate command:<br />
{{Console| <pre class="clear">locate kdmrc</pre>}}<br />
or the find command:<br />
{{Console| <pre class="clear">find / -name kdmrc</pre>}}<br />
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In this example we will suppose that it is located at ''/usr/kde/4.2/share/config/kdm/kdmrc''.<br><br />
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Now we will open it up with ''kwrite'':<br />
{{Console| <pre class="clear">kwrite /usr/kde/4.2/share/config/kdm/kdmrc</pre>}}<br />
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Notice that KDE4 may require the full path to "kwrite", in this case you will receive an error message:<br />
{{Console| <pre class="clear"># kwrite<br />
bash: kwrite: command not found</pre>}}<br />
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You could use "nano" instead:<br />
{{Console| <pre class="clear">nano /usr/kde/4.2/share/config/kdm/kdmrc</pre>}}<br />
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or launch "kwrite" using "kdesu" '''from your normal user account, not the root user account''':<br />
{{Console| <pre class="clear">kdesu kwrite /usr/kde/4.2/share/config/kdm/kdmrc</pre>}}<br />
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'''4.''' Now we are going to setup our preferences, we can notice a section in this file with the Autologin preferences; these lines are commented.<br><br />
Commented lines are marked with a '#', and are ignored; if a preference is commented, it is going to be used the default configuration for that setting.<br><br />
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The relevant lines for our purpose are:<br />
{{Console| <pre class="clear">#AutoLoginEnable=true</pre>}}<br />
and<br />
{{Console| <pre class="clear">#AutoLoginUser=fred</pre>}}<br />
We want them to enable the Autologin with our default user, assume that the default user we want to Autologin is ''micia''.<br><br />
We set ''#AutoLoginEnable=true'' to:<br />
{{Console| <pre class="clear">AutoLoginEnable=true</pre>}}<br />
So that the preference is no more ignored, and we set ''#AutoLoginUser=fred'' to:<br />
{{Console| <pre class="clear">AutoLoginUser=micia</pre>}}<br />
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This is it, save the file, reboot, and see if it worked.<br />
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= Setting Up Autologin for Gnome (GDM) =<br />
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This is an easy one, just use ''gdmsetup'' to configure your preferences.<br><br />
You have to run it as ''root'', so, as usual:<br />
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'''1.''' Open up your favourite console application, for example ''gnome-terminal'' and type:<br />
{{Console| <pre class="clear">su</pre>}}<br />
Now type in your root password.<br />
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'''2.''' Make sure that the Sabayon Media Centre init script is not in a system runlevel:<br />
{{Console| <pre class="clear">rc-update del sabayon-mce boot<br />
rc-update del sabayon-mce default</pre>}}<br />
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'''3.''' Run ''gdmsetup'':<br />
{{Console| <pre class="clear">gdmsetup</pre>}}<br />
And enable Automatic Login for your user.<br />
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Someone reported that ''gdmsetup'' was not in their root $PATH variable, if this is your case executing ''gdmsetup'' should output something like:<br />
{{Console| <pre class="clear">il-padre-mobile micia # gdmsetup<br />
bash: gdmsetup: command not found</pre>}}<br />
You will need to find the ''gdmsetup'' executable, with ''locate'' or ''find'' as above, for example using ''find'':<br />
{{Console| <pre class="clear">find / -name gdmsetup</pre>}}<br />
Suppose that the result is:<br />
{{Console| <pre class="clear"># find / -name gdmsetup<br />
/usr/sbin/gdmsetup<br />
/etc/security/console.apps/gdmsetup<br />
/etc/pam.d/gdmsetup</pre>}}<br />
Obviously the one which interests us is ''/usr/sbin/gdmsetup'', we then execute it explicitly with:<br />
{{Console| <pre class="clear">/usr/sbin/gdmsetup</pre>}}<br />
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This should work for the GDM Display Manager.<br><br />
I hope this will help someone, good luck!</div>Fitzcarraldo