Preserving X forwarded applications

2008-11-07 Thread Roey Dror
I'm looking for a solution similar to the screen utility, but for X11. I want, for example, to burn a cd on a remote computer using some GUI application. If, for any reason, the network goes down while burning, I suppose I lose the whole thing. Same thing goes when editing a document. I know that

Re: GDM login without using a password

2008-11-04 Thread Roey Dror
AFAIK the automatic login feature allows you to nominate a user to automatically log in as... it doesn't ask for the password but I think one can be set (so it doesn't need to be empty). As I said, the automatic login feature is not what I'm looking for. I need to set up more than one user

GDM login without using a password

2008-11-04 Thread Roey Dror
I've searched around the internet for a way to allow a user to login into GDM without using a password. I know that GDM has an automatic login feature, but that's not what I'm looking. I really do not wish to create a user with an empty password, in order not to compromise the entire system

Re: GDM login without using a password

2008-11-04 Thread Roey Dror
OK the pam stuff that is talked about online is found in /etc/pam.d/gdm. I have seen a few suggestions to change the auth to optional instead of required. However there would be nothing to stop some one logging in as root through gdm. Is there any other pam module which can supply a

Re: GDM login without using a password

2008-11-04 Thread Roey Dror
Is there any other pam module which can supply a passwordless login? maybe pam_guest? I figured it out. Adding this line: authsufficient pam_guest.soguests=username nopass to /etc/pam.d/gdm did the trick. -- Roey ___

Re: Unable to mount / in read - write mode

2008-11-04 Thread Roey Dror
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Popof Popof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know where but I made a mistake and I am always booting on the 6.0 kernel. Are you using the GENERIC kernel or a custom one? -- Roey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org