Hi there,

Is there a way that i can by pass the login screen to Xwindows?? i just want to slack boot directly to xwindows without login at all.

thanks in advance

I'm assuming since this is slack we're talking about that you are using kde as your desktop? If so, then go into the control center, and under the bottom tab just change your login manager.

Alunduil

Yeah, u have to enable auto login in the control panel!

how do you auto login to xwindows with root access or root account ???

Thanks

It's generally a very bad idea to login as root for all of the time. I can only imagine the catastrophe awaiting someone who wants their computer to auto-login the super account. My recommendation, at most auto-login as your user account. Personally, I wouldn't even do that. You never know if one of your buddies/family members is gonna come over and use your computer, or if you yourself are logged in as root; then it gets really scary. You could inadvertently wipe parts of your system change all settings etc.

So, stay away from root if at all possible, and stick to a friendly user account for yourself. Only use the power when the power is needed, not any other times. Will make your system live longer.

Alunduil

I can't imagine why you'd want to do anything as stupid as that. but, you can add startx to the last line of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local and that will do it.

note: don't ever do that.

hey guys does anyone know how to auto-login to X (non-root user) on a slackware box without kde or gnome installed??? a full install using only CD 1...

looks like xdm doesn't have built-in auto-login capabilities, but maybe you guys know a way to script an auto-login??

the same dirty solution I posted above works for users.

su [user] -c startx

thanks... i'm gonna try that... what does the "-c" mean??

the man page says:


Additional arguments may be provided after the username, in which case they are
supplied to the user's login shell. In particular, an argument of -c will cause the
next argument to be treated as a command by most command interpreters. The command
will be executed by the shell specified in /etc/passwd for the target user.

oh, okay... i did look at the man page before asking, i just missed that part... my brain was looking for a bold -c on the left... hehe...

BTW, what about putting a "-" before the username??

i'm curious cuz it says:

sounds like something that might be useful... what do you think??

The KDM session manager can do that. On SuSE Linux you would go the the 'Edit Groups and Users' setup dialog to make the change. I don't know what you have for slackware. You can use KDM to login to the window manager of your choice. However, the common way to set it up is to use the kcontrol program. But if KDE isn't installed, I don't know if you can use it, or exactly what changes it would make, such as changing the /etc/inittab file and making changes to the /etc/pam.d/ configuration files.

Also, using autologin is potentially dangerous and shouldn't be used if you access the Internet, or if you have a user on the local network that you don't totally trust. For example, if the changes add an option to KDM or mingetty this may be readable in /proc/<pid>/cmdline.
You should only use it if you want to run a kiosk.

you may or may not have to do that. if it works, it probably doesn't matter too much. you might want to do it just to be safe

and...

ooh.. firstly.. you need far more kde components than would be worth it, and, what? PAM?.. I know naught of what you speak. (not in slackware)

okay, i put these in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local (one at a time):

and
in both instances i get this on startup:

and i get dropped to a regular runlevel 3 login (as set in my inittab)...

the path variables aren't set. you have to give an absolute path to startx

usually /usr/X11R6/bin/startx