Re: autologin for debian

The Gnome documentation (
http://library.gnome.org/admin/gdm/stable/configuration.html.en) is silent
on this point, but according to
http://www.perturb.org/display/812_GDM_AutoLogin.html you can only log in
with a non-root user.

You might like to try TimedLogin in case it has different restrictions.

You also may need to make other configuration changes to allow root login
through gdm at all, have a look at
http://digiassn.blogspot.com/2006/10/linux-allowing-root-login-under-ubuntu.htmland
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Enabling_Root_User_For_GNOME_Display_Managerfor
ubuntu & fedora respectively ... you may need to translate a bit.

Good Luck

Bruce

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Robin Paulson <[email protected]> wrote:

> i've got a debian system, which i would like to autologin on boot. i've
> added the following lines to /etc/gdm/gdm.conf under daemon
>
> AutomaticLoginEnable=true
> AutomaticLogin=root
>
> but i still get the gdm greet screen at boot. any suggestions?
>
> i can't do this through the GUI, as i can't logon - the system is a touch
> screen phone, and there's no keyboard available at the logon screen
>
> also: yes, i know root login is bad, autologin of root terrible. there are
> various reasons why this is necessary
>
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