Auto login normal user debian
 

Hi,

I triyng to auto login my debian system to the user i configure. I want the X (xdm wmaker) to login automatically as one normal user.

Who can i configure this ?????
Somewhere in /etx/X11...... or not ???

Thanks
Hasta la vista
MM

As far as I can recall, xdm doesn't allow for an auto-login, nor do they have plans to change that. Use KDM or some other login manager that supports it.

GDM also supports autologins, but with either KDM or GDM you will end up installing a lot of dependencies, and possibly fighting GNOME or KDE from starting.

Another option is to use the rungetty package to autologin a user, and then
have the user's .bash_profile start X. To make this work you will have to disable or uninstall XDM (or any other login managers).

I have done this with some machines, and wrote a summary here:
http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~pnijjar/...login_rungetty

One possible option would be WDM, which is a modified version of XDM. WDM doesn't actually support autologin but you can set the default user and default password in /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config. Now, when Debian boots to WDM you only need to press Enter twice (first to activate the default user and second time to activate the default password) to login to your default window manager (WDM also gives you an automatically updated list of all installed window managers / desktop environments).

If you choose to use this method, you should "chmod 600 /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config" to make sure that only users with root access can see your password.