This one time, at band camp, Alex Polite said: > I've set up a VDR-box (http://freevo.sourceforge.net/) under > Debian. I'd like the box to go directly into an X session upon > booting, without having to fill in password and username in xdm. > > I know how to do this kdm/kde but running kde for that one feature > seems like an awful waste. > > Ideas? > > alex
I think gdm also supports a passwordless immediate login for a single user. I guess it depends on what you mean by waste - it's mostly disk space, rather than system resources, because the login manager doesn't use up much hanging around in the background when your user session is active. This is from top: 3318 root 9 0 1772 1772 1668 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 gdm 3319 root 9 0 2180 2180 1984 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 gdm Not much of a price, really. I suppose the other way to go about doing this is through inittab. X takes an argument for user, IIRC, and so you could have inittab start X for a specific user at a specific runlevel (say 2, the Debian default). This would bypass the (x,k,g)dm issue entirely. Just my $.02, Steve -- "A word to the wise: a credentials dicksize war is usually a bad idea on the net." (David Parsons in c.o.l.development.system, about coding in C.)
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