Moinak Ghosh wrote: > Dave Miner wrote: >> Clay Baenziger wrote: >> >>> I don't see a custom /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf, but shouldn't the LiveCD >>> automatically login as root? Apparently, GDM only supports automatic >>> login >>> of non-root users (see >>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475477). >>> Thanks to Brain Cameron for the pointer above. He suggests perhaps >>> modifying the pam.conf to allow root to login without a password only >>> locally would work okay? >>> >>> >> >> Yes, it's supposed to, that's work we haven't done yet. >> > > We will be able to start a desktop without needing GDM. I have > a couple of scripts that can start a GNOME session directly as > root. We can have that as a separate SMF service. This will avoid > the overhead of starting GDM. >
For one, would you please send me those scripts as I asked for them a couple of weeks ago. Second, I'm not convinced that we don't want to use GDM, but I'd like to look at what you've done vs. what would be needed to use GDM before we make a decision there. Dave
